Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
देवब्राह्मणपूजायां ये रता नानसूयवः ।
शुक्ला वदान्या ह्रीमन्तस्ते नराः सुखमृत्यवः ॥
devabrāhmaṇapūjāyāṃ ye ratā nānasūyavaḥ / śuklā vadānyā hrīmantas te narāḥ sukhamṛtyavaḥ
Those who delight in honoring the gods and the brāhmaṇas—free from envy, pure, generous, and modest—such people attain a peaceful death.
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Reverence toward sacred order (devas) and custodians of learning/ritual (brāhmaṇas), combined with inner virtues (non-envy, purity, generosity, modest restraint), is presented as a complete ethical ecology culminating in a serene end.
Ancillary dharma instruction.
‘Deva’ and ‘brāhmaṇa’ can be read as principles of illumination and discernment; honoring them is honoring higher faculties, which stabilizes consciousness at death.