Shloka 27
Dehānta (Cyavana) and Upapatti: Kāśyapa’s Questions and the Siddha’s Account of Death, Pain, and Karmic Re-embodiment
तेषु मर्मसु भिन्नेषु ततः स समुदीरयन् । आविश्य हृदयं जन्तो: सत्त्वं चाशु रुणद्धि वै
teṣu marmasu bhinneṣu tataḥ sa samudīrayan | āviśya hṛdayaṃ jantoḥ sattvaṃ cāśu ruṇaddhi vai ||
When those vital joints and vulnerable points are broken, the wind (vāyu), rising up in agitation, enters the creature’s heart and swiftly obstructs its inner clarity—its mental steadiness and discernment.
सिद्ध उवाच
Educational Q&A
Damage to vital bodily points (marmas) can rapidly disturb the life-breath and cloud the mind’s steadiness (sattva), implying an ethical caution: violence does not merely wound the body—it can extinguish a being’s capacity for clear judgment and self-mastery.
A Siddha explains a physiological-moral mechanism: when marmas are broken, vāyu becomes agitated, rises, enters the heart, and quickly blocks the victim’s inner clarity, describing how severe injury leads to swift mental incapacitation.