Shloka 84
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
पदे पदे च पादो 'स्य शीर्यते जीर्यते पुनः ।
अहोरात्रेणोद्धरणं पादन्यासं च गच्छति ॥
pade pade ca pādo 'sya śīryate jīryate punaḥ | ahorātreṇoddharaṇaṃ pādanyāsaṃ ca gacchati ||
ہر قدم پر اس کا پاؤں ٹوٹ جاتا ہے اور بار بار گل کر بکھر جاتا ہے۔ پورے دن اور رات میں وہ بس ایک ہی قدم اٹھا کر رکھ پاتا ہے۔
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FAQs
Sin slows the soul’s progress: the image of one step per day dramatizes how adharma creates long, grinding obstruction and exhaustion.
Ethical instruction (dharma/karma-phala) presented through naraka narrative; not directly sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita, though it supports vaṃśānucarita-style didacticism.
The ‘decaying foot’ symbolizes unstable resolve (saṅkalpa) and the collapse of support (pāda = foundation). Spiritual progress becomes painfully incremental when one’s base is compromised.