स एष जीवन् खलु सम्परेतोवर्तेत योऽत्यन्तनृशंसितेन । देहे मृते तं मनुजा: शपन्तिगन्ता तमोऽन्धं तनुमानिनो ध्रुवम् ॥ २२ ॥
sa eṣa jīvan khalu sampareto varteta yo ’tyanta-nṛśaṁsitena dehe mṛte taṁ manujāḥ śapanti gantā tamo ’ndhaṁ tanu-mānino dhruvam
- saḥ
- he
- eṣaḥ
- that jealous person
- jīvan
- while living
- khalu
- even
- samparetaḥ
- is dead
- varteta
- continues to live
- yaḥ
- anyone who
- atyanta
- very much
- nṛśaṁsitena
- by executing cruel activities
- dehe
- when the body
- mṛte
- is finished
- tam
- him
- manujāḥ
- all human beings
- śapanti
- condemn
- gantā
- he will go
- tamaḥ andham
- to hellish life
- tanu-māninaḥ
- of a person in the bodily concept of life
- dhruvam
- without a doubt
A person who is very cruel is regarded as dead even while living, for while he is living or after his death, everyone condemns him. And after the death of a person in the bodily concept of life, he is undoubtedly transferred to the hell known as Andhatama.