Shloka 24
Dehānta (Cyavana) and Upapatti: Kāśyapa’s Questions and the Siddha’s Account of Death, Pain, and Karmic Re-embodiment
स्रोतोभिरययर्विजानाति इन्द्रियार्थान् शरीरभूत्,देहधारी जीव जिन इन्द्रियोंके द्वारा रूप, रस आदि विषयोंका अनुभव करता है, उनके द्वारा वह भोजनसे परिपषुष्ट होनेवाले प्राणोंको नहीं जान पाता। इस शरीरके भीतर रहकर जो कार्य करता है, वह सनातन जीव है
srotobhir ayayar vijānāti indriyārthān śarīrabhūtān; dehadhārī jīvaḥ yena indriyaiḥ rūpa-rasa-ādi-viṣayān anubhavati, taiḥ sa bhojanena paripuṣṭa-prāṇān na jānāti. asya śarīrasya bhitare sthitvā yaḥ karma karoti, sa sanātano jīvaḥ.
स्रोतोभिरययर्विजानाति इन्द्रियार्थान् शरीरभूत् । देहधारी जीवः इन्द्रियैः रूपरसादिविषयान् अनुभूय तैरेव न प्राणानाहारपरिपोषितान् विजानाति । अस्मिन्काये स्थित्वा यः कर्म करोति स जीवः सनातनः ॥
सिद्ध उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sense-faculties reveal external objects (form, taste, etc.), but they do not by themselves disclose the inner principle of life—the prāṇas sustained by food—nor the deeper agent within. The verse points toward discerning the eternal jīva (self) as distinct from sensory experience and bodily processes.
A Siddha is instructing about the nature of embodied existence: how perception operates through bodily channels and senses, and why the true inner self that acts while dwelling in the body is not grasped merely through sensory cognition.