Shloka 19
पञ्चवर्णोत्पत्तिः — The Origin of the Five-Colored Fiery Being and Ritual-Disruptor Lineages
न म्रियेयुर्न जीर्येयु: सर्वे स्यु: सार्वकामिका:
na mriyeyur na jīryeyuḥ sarve syuḥ sārvakāmikāḥ
“None would die, nor would any grow old; all beings would remain ever fulfilled in every desire.”
व्याध उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse imagines an ideal condition where death, aging, and lack are absent—highlighting that ordinary life is defined by mortality and decay, and that craving for complete satisfaction is a powerful human impulse often used to frame ethical reflection on what truly constitutes well-being.
The hunter (Vyādha), speaking in a didactic context, presents a hypothetical world in which everyone would neither die nor age and would have every desire fulfilled—an illustrative statement used to advance his moral reasoning about human life and values.