Shloka 18
Dehānta (Cyavana) and Upapatti: Kāśyapa’s Questions and the Siddha’s Account of Death, Pain, and Karmic Re-embodiment
वेदनाभि: परीतात्मा तद् विद्धि द्विजसत्तम । जातीमरणसंविग्ना: सततं सर्वजन्तवः
vedanābhiḥ parītātmā tad viddhi dvijasattama | jātimaraṇasaṃvignāḥ satataṃ sarvajantavaḥ ||
Le Siddha dit : «Sache-le bien, ô le meilleur des deux-fois-nés : à l’heure de la mort, l’âme incarnée est submergée par des douleurs qui saisissent le corps et l’esprit. Ainsi, tous les êtres vivants du monde demeurent sans cesse tourmentés, toujours anxieux devant la naissance et la mort.»
सिद्ध उवाच
Educational Q&A
That embodied life is pervaded by suffering and anxiety centered on the cycle of birth and death; recognizing this is meant to awaken dispassion (vairāgya) and a search for liberation-oriented dharma.
A Siddha instructs a learned interlocutor (addressed as ‘best of the twice-born’) about the universal condition of beings: at death the person is overwhelmed by pain, and therefore creatures remain constantly troubled by the inevitability of birth and death.