Shloka 54
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
यो न कामान्न संरम्भान्न द्वेषाद्धर्ममुत्सृजेत् ।
यथोक्तकारी सौम्यश्च स सुखं मृत्युमृच्छति ॥
yo na kāmān na saṃrambhān na dveṣād dharmam utsṛjet / yathoktakārī somyaś ca sa sukhaṃ mṛtyum ṛcchati
যে কাম, ত্বরিত ক্রোধ বা দ্বেষের কারণে ধর্ম ত্যাগ করে না, যে নির্দেশমতো কর্ম করে এবং মৃদু স্বভাবের—সে শান্তিতে মৃত্যুকে বরণ করে।
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FAQs
Dharma is portrayed as most vulnerable under emotional pressure (desire/anger/hatred). The virtue is steadiness: remaining aligned to right guidance and maintaining gentleness, which prevents karmic turbulence at the end of life.
Ancillary dharma instruction.
Kāma, krodha-like agitation (saṃrambha), and dveṣa are seen as forces that scatter prāṇa and mind; ‘somya’ indicates a sattvic consolidation that supports a stable departure.