Shloka 17
Dehānta (Cyavana) and Upapatti: Kāśyapa’s Questions and the Siddha’s Account of Death, Pain, and Karmic Re-embodiment
तत: सवेदन: सद्यो जीव: प्रच्यवते क्षरात् शरीर त्यजते जनन््तुश्छिद्यमानेषु मर्मसु
tataḥ sa-vedanaḥ sadyo jīvaḥ pracyavate kṣarāt | śarīraṁ tyajate jantuś chidyamāneṣu marmasu ||
মর্মস্থানবোৰ ছিন্নভিন্ন হ’বলৈ ধৰিলে, বেদনাত ব্যথিত জীৱ তৎক্ষণাৎ এই ক্ষয়শীল দেহৰ পৰা ওলাই যায়। প্ৰাণী সেই দেহ চিৰদিনৰ বাবে ত্যাগ কৰে।
सिद्ध उवाच
Educational Q&A
Life in the body is dependent on fragile bodily supports; when the vital points are destroyed, the jīva departs immediately. The verse encourages sober reflection on impermanence and supports ethical detachment from bodily identification.
A Siddha explains the moment of death in physiological and philosophical terms: as the marmas (vital points) are cut or damaged, intense pain arises and the embodied being leaves the perishable body, abandoning it definitively.