[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 7.19.p37 # Skandapurana 7.19.p37 Skandapurāṇa 7.19.p37 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.19.p37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p37) tattvāṃ7 vijñāpayāmīdaṃ niṣṭhāmākhyātumarhasi . evaṃ vijñānasaṃpannaḥ prāptayogo munirmune . .6. . vinākleśaṃ tanuṃ tyaktvā yogī yogabalānvitaḥ . kathamāpnoti tad brahma niṣkalaṃ parameśvaram . 7. . īśvarādhānasaṃprāpterupāyaṃ8 mokṣalambhanam . kathayasva muniśreṣṭha praṣṭavyaṃ nānyadasti me . .8. . evamuktaḥ sa śiṣyeṇa vyāsena sumahātmanā . kathayāmāsa viprendraḥ śivasiddhāntaniścayam . .9. . sanatkumāra uvāca śṛṇu vyāsa paraṃ jñānamīśvarādhānakāraṇam9 . svecchayā10 yena mucyante11 yogino jñānatatparāḥ . . 8.182.10 . . tridhotkrāntimimāṃ12 jñātvā muhurabhyasya caiva hi . svadehaṃ ripuvat tvaktvā13 ṣaḍviṃśe layamāpnuyāt ..1 1 .. > Therefore I ask this of you; you ought to declare the final state. > Having thus become endowed with discernment, the sage who has attained yoga, O sage, (6) > how does the yogin, endowed with the power of yoga, leaving behind the body without affliction, > attain that partless Brahman, the supreme Lord? (7) > Tell me, O best of sages, the means to achieve fixation on the Lord, which yields liberation; > I have nothing else to ask. (8) > Addressed thus by his disciple, the very noble Vyāsa, > the chief of brahmins declared the certainty of the Śiva doctrine. (9) > Sanatkumāra said: > Listen, Vyāsa, to the supreme knowledge, the cause of fixation on the Lord, > by which yogins intent on knowledge are liberated at their own will. (10) > Having understood this three-fold departure and practicing it repeatedly indeed, > abandoning one's own body like an enemy, one should attain absorption in the twenty-sixth \[principle\]. (11) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.19.p36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p36) - [Next: 7.19.p38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p38) - [Up: 7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.19.p37) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Skanda Purāṇa (Kumāra Kavi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skandapurana.72.6) — Kumāra Kavi, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p37) · Pramāṇa