Shloka 55
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
अवारिदायिनो दाहं क्षुधाञ्चानन्नदायिनः ।
प्राप्नुवन्ति नराः काले तस्मिन् मृत्यावुपस्थिते ॥
avāridāyino dāhaṃ kṣudhāṃ cānannadāyinaḥ / prāpnuvanti narāḥ kāle tasmin mṛtyāv upasthite
水を施さなかった者は焼けつく渇きに苦しみ、食を施さなかった者は飢えに苦しむ——その時、すなわち死が到来した時に。
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FAQs
Basic compassion—offering water and food—is treated as foundational dharma. Neglecting it rebounds as matching deprivation at death, when one is most vulnerable.
Ancillary dharma instruction.
Water and food symbolize the two primary supports of embodied life; refusal to sustain others hardens the psyche, producing corresponding inner ‘dryness’ and ‘lack’ at the final threshold.