Shloka 19
Brahmā’s Enumeration of Primacies (Ādi) and the Supremacy of Knowledge
Jñāna
सर्वे क्षयान्ता निचया: पतनान्ता: समुच्छया: । संयोगाश्न वियोगान्ता मरणान्तं च जीवितम्,समस्त संग्रहका अन्त है विनाश, उत्थानका अन्त है पतन, संयोगका अन्त है वियोग और जीवनका अन्त है मृत्यु
sarve kṣayāntā nicayāḥ patanāntāḥ samucchayāḥ | saṃyogāś ca viyogāntā maraṇāntaṃ ca jīvitam ||
Dijo Vāyu: «Toda acumulación termina en agotamiento; toda elevación y toda altura amontonada termina en caída. Toda unión termina en separación, y la vida misma termina en la muerte».
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches impermanence: wealth and gains diminish, high positions collapse, relationships part, and life ends in death. Therefore one should practice non-attachment, humility, and dharmic action without intoxication by success or despair in loss.
Vāyudeva delivers a sober instruction, using universal truths about decline, separation, and mortality to counsel the listener toward steadiness and right conduct, rather than clinging to transient worldly conditions.