Shloka 52
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
येनानृतानि नोक्तानि प्रीतिभेदः कृतो न च ।
आस्तिकः श्रद्धधानश्च स सुखं मृत्युमृच्छति ॥
yenānṛtāni noktāni prītibhedaḥ kṛto na ca / āstikaḥ śraddadhānaś ca sa sukhaṃ mṛtyum ṛcchati
येन नानृतं प्रोक्तं येन च स्नेहभङ्गो न कृतः—आस्तिकः श्रद्धासम्पन्नः स शान्त्या मृत्युम् उपैति।
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FAQs
Truthfulness and preserving relationships are treated as death-facing virtues: they prevent inner fragmentation (guilt, fear, social enmity) and thus yield a composed, ‘easy’ passage at life’s end.
Ancillary dharma teaching; not a pancalakṣaṇa category proper.
‘Prīti’ (affection) indicates cohesion of the subtle body’s dispositions; avoiding prīti-bheda implies non-violence at the emotional level, reducing saṃskāric agitation that otherwise manifests as fear at death.