Shloka 6
Dehānta (Cyavana) and Upapatti: Kāśyapa’s Questions and the Siddha’s Account of Death, Pain, and Karmic Re-embodiment
सिद्ध उवाच आयु:कीर्तिकराणीह यानि कृत्यानि सेवते । शरीरग्रहणे यस्मिंस्तेषु क्षीणेषु सर्वश:
siddha uvāca āyuḥ-kīrti-karāṇīha yāni kṛtyāni sevate | śarīra-grahaṇe yasmiṁs teṣu kṣīṇeṣu sarvaśaḥ ||
Sinabi ng Siddha: “O Kāśyapa, sa mundong ito, ang mga gawang pinipili ng tao na nagdudulot ng mahabang buhay at dangal ang nagiging sanhi upang magkamit siya ng katawan. Pagkatanggap ng katawan, kapag ang lahat ng gawang iyon ay lubos nang naubos matapos ibigay ang kanilang bunga, ang itinakdang haba ng buhay ng nilalang ay nagsisimula ring maglaho. Sa gayong kalagayan, siya’y bumabaling sa mga gawang salungat at mapanira; at habang papalapit ang oras ng pagkapuksa, ang kanyang pag-unawa ay nababaligtad.”
सिद्ध उवाच
Educational Q&A
Meritorious actions can lead to embodied existence and its enjoyments (longevity, reputation), but once their results are exhausted, decline sets in; near the end, one may fall into harmful conduct and confused judgment—so one should cultivate steady discernment and dharmic restraint rather than rely on temporary karmic fruits.
A Siddha addresses a listener (contextually a sage such as Kāśyapa in the surrounding discourse) and explains the karmic mechanism behind embodiment and decline: deeds ripen into a body and its allotted span, and when those deeds are spent, the being’s condition deteriorates and the mind tends toward error as death approaches.