Shloka 3
Adhyāya 33: Brāhmaṇa-Upadeśa on Buddhi, Āśrama-Forms, and Inner Freedom
ये केचिज्जन्तवो लोके जड्मा: स्थावराश्ष ह | तेषां मामन्तकं विद्धि दारूणामिव पावकम्
ye kecij jantavo loke jaṅgamāḥ sthāvarāś ca ha | teṣāṃ mām antakaṃ viddhi dārūṇām iva pāvakam ||
“Whatever beings there are in this world—moving and unmoving—know me to be their End, the destroyer called Death, just as fire is the destroyer of wood.”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Death is presented as the universal terminator of all beings—both moving and unmoving—just as fire inevitably consumes wood; the verse urges clear recognition of impermanence as a basis for right understanding and detachment.
A Brahmin speaker delivers a philosophical instruction, using a vivid simile (fire consuming wood) to explain the inevitability of death for all forms of life within worldly existence.