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,द्विजश्रेष्ठ! मृत्युकालमें जीवका तन-मन वेदनासे व्यथित होता है, इस बातको भलीभाँति जान लो। इस तरह संसारके सभी प्राणी सदा जन्म और मरणसे उद्दिग्न रहते हैं
vedanābhiḥ parītātmā tad viddhi dvijasattama | jātimaraṇasaṃvignāḥ satataṃ sarvajantavaḥ ||
シッダは言った。「よく知れ、二度生まれし者のうち最勝の者よ。死の時、身を帯びた自己は、身と心の双方を捉える苦痛に圧倒される。ゆえにこの世のあらゆる生きものは、常に悩まされ、生と死とを絶えず恐れ憂うのである。」
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.