Shloka 10
Jvarotpatti — The Origin and Distribution of Jvara
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अभावं यान्ति तेष्वेव तेभ्यश्व प्रभवन्त्यपि । विनष्टो5प्यनु तान्येव जन्तुर्भवति पठचधा
abhāvaṁ yānti teṣv eva tebhyaś ca prabhavanty api | vinaṣṭo 'py anu tāny eva jantur bhavati pañcadhā ||
Asita dit : «Tous les êtres entrent dans la non-manifestation au sein de ces causes mêmes, et de ces mêmes causes ils renaissent. Même lorsque le corps est détruit, l’être vivant—divisé en cinq aspects—revient et se fond dans ses sources causales respectives.»
असित उवाच
Educational Q&A
Embodied existence is cyclical: beings dissolve back into their causal constituents and arise again from them. Since the body and its components are perishable and return to their sources, one should cultivate detachment and adhere to dharma rather than clinging to transient embodiment.
Asita is explaining a doctrinal point about dissolution and origination: when the body perishes, the living being is described as becoming ‘fivefold’ and merging into corresponding causes—an allusion to the return of constituents (commonly understood as the five elements) to their sources.