Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 39
यदा कर्मक्षयस्ते स्यात्तदा त्वं च मरिष्यसि । मरिष्यमाणप्रेतो हि मृतप्रेतस्य शोचति
yadā karmakṣayaste syāttadā tvaṃ ca mariṣyasi | mariṣyamāṇapreto hi mṛtapretasya śocati
Wenn dein Vorrat an Karma erschöpft ist, dann wirst auch du sterben. Wahrlich, ein Wesen, das selbst dem Tod entgegengeht, beklagt einen, der bereits zum Geist der Verstorbenen geworden ist.
An instructing sage/teacher figure in the Setukhaṇḍa dialogue (contextual; exact speaker not in snippet)
Tirtha: Setu (Setubandha/Rāmeśvara-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija
Scene: A stark teaching scene: the sage points to a funeral pyre smoke or a skull symbol, while the dvija realizes his own mortality; a shadowy ‘preta’ motif is suggested allegorically, not grotesquely.
FAQs
Remember your own mortality and act wisely; grief becomes misplaced when one ignores that death is universal and karmically timed.
Not directly; the verse is part of the Setukhaṇḍa instruction leading toward rites associated with Rāmasetu.
No explicit ritual is stated here; it sets the rationale for performing proper preta rites rather than indulging in lamentation.