Shloka 7
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
पक्षिण ऊचुः प्रश्नभारोऽयमतुलस्त्वयास्मासु निवेशितः ।
दुर्भाव्यः सर्वभूतानां भावाभावसमाश्रितः ॥
pakṣiṇa ūcuḥ praśnabhāro 'yam atulas tvayāsmāsu niveśitaḥ |
durbhāvyaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ bhāvābhāva-samāśritaḥ ||
The birds said: “This burden of questions—unequalled—has been placed by you upon us. It is difficult to conceive for all beings, as it depends upon the mystery of being and non-being.”
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FAQs
True questions can be heavy; acknowledging difficulty is part of intellectual honesty. The verse also hints that ordinary beings struggle because they cling to simplistic notions of ‘is’ and ‘is not’.
This is framing dialogue, not one of the five characteristics; it introduces doctrinal explanation that may connect to creation (Sarga) and dissolution (Pratisarga).
Bhāva/abhāva gestures toward deeper metaphysics: the jīva’s continuity cannot be captured by crude categories of existence/nonexistence tied only to the gross body.