Those persons from whose souls the qualities of goodness, darkness, and ignorance have been washed off, they who, not caring for purity and impurity, pursue the ends they have proposed to themselves, they who have renounced everything, they who are possessed of omniscience and gifted with universal sight, and they who are of pure conduct, are considered as Tirthas possessing the purifying power.
रजस्तमः सत्त्वमथो येषां निधोतमात्मनः। शौचाशौचसमायुक्ताः स्वकार्यपरिमार्गिणः॥ सर्वत्यागेष्वभिरताः सर्वज्ञाः समदर्शिनः। शौचेन वृत्तशौचार्थास्तु तीर्थाः शुचयश्च ये॥