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 ||
成就者说道：“迦叶波啊，在此世间，凡人所行能增长寿命与声名之业，皆成为得身之因。既受此身之后，当那些业尽皆结报而耗尽之时，众生所分得的寿量亦随之衰减。处于此境，他便转向相反而有害之行；而毁灭之期渐近时，其知见亦颠倒错乱。”
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.