Shloka 54
Adhyaya 14 — The Messenger of Yama Explains Karmic Retribution and the Causes of Naraka Torments
दुष्टास्ते पूयनिर्यास-भुजः सूचীমुखास्तु ते ।
जायन्ते गिरिवर्ष्माणः पश्यैते यादृशा नराः ॥
duṣṭāste pūyaniryāsa-bhujaḥ sūcīmukhāstu te / jāyante girivarṣmāṇaḥ paśyaite yādṛśā narāḥ
Jene Frevler werden zu Essern von Eiter und stinkenden Ausflüssen; ihr Mund wird nadelöhrengleich, und sie werden mit berggleichen Leibern geboren—sieh, zu welcher Art von Wesen diese Menschen werden.
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FAQs
The text uses shock imagery to teach that moral corruption deforms one’s future experience—one’s ‘taste’ (what one consumes) and ‘speech/ingress’ (mouth) become instruments of suffering.
Didactic karmaphala material; not pañcalakṣaṇa.
Needle-mouth suggests extreme constriction: the soul that lived by stinginess/cruelty finds its channels narrowed. Mountain-body suggests heaviness of accumulated karma—burdensome embodiment.