Shloka 42
अहिंसा-प्रधान धर्मविचारः
Ahiṃsā as the Superior Dharma: Practical and Scriptural Reasoning
सभी देवता पुण्य क्षय होनेपर इस लोकमें आकर मरणथधर्मा नामसे विभूषित होते हैं और सभी मरणथधर्मा मनुष्य पुण्यके प्रभावसे मृत्युके पश्चात् देवसंज्ञासे संयुक्त होते हैं। अतः राजसिंह! तुम अपने पुत्रके लिये शोक न करो। तुम्हारा पुत्र स्वर्गलोकमें जाकर आनन्द भोग रहा है ।।
pitāmaha uvāca | sarve devatāḥ puṇya-kṣaye ’smin loke āgatya maraṇa-dharmā nāma-vibhūṣitā bhavanti, sarve ca maraṇa-dharmā manuṣyāḥ puṇya-prabhāvāt mṛtyoḥ paścāt deva-saṃjñayā saṃyuktā bhavanti | ataḥ rāja-siṃha tvaṃ putrasya śokaṃ mā kṛthāḥ | tava putraḥ svarga-lokaṃ gatvā ānandaṃ bhuṅkte || evaṃ mṛtyur deva-sṛṣṭā prajānāṃ prāpte kāle saṃharantī yathāvat | tasyāś caiva vyādhayas te ’śru-pātāḥ prāpte kāle saṃharantīha jantūn ||
毗湿摩说道：“诸天之福德既尽，便来此世，而被冠以‘凡死’之名；凡死之人，凭其福德之力，死后又得系于‘天神’之称。故王中之狮啊，莫为汝子悲恸。汝子已往天界，正享安乐。 又，死亡本为造物主所制，以施于众生；时机既至，便依其法度摄取生命。那死亡之‘滴’亦化为疾病；时熟之际，便在此世终结诸有情。”
पितामह उवाच
Educational Q&A
Merit and status are not permanent: gods can become mortal when their merit is spent, and humans can attain divine status through merit. Therefore grief should be tempered by understanding karmic order and the destined time of death, which operates according to a cosmic law.
Bhīṣma addresses a grieving king (rāja-siṃha), urging him not to mourn his son, who has attained heaven. He then explains that death is a divinely ordained principle that withdraws beings at the appointed time, often through the agency of diseases.