श्रीशुक उवाच न चेदिहैवापचितिं यथांहस: कृतस्य कुर्यान्मनउक्तपाणिभि: । ध्रुवं स वै प्रेत्य नरकानुपैति ये कीर्तिता मे भवतस्तिग्मयातना: ॥ ७ ॥
sri-suka uvaca na ced ihaivapacitim yathamhasah krtasya kuryan mana-ukta-panibhih dhruvam sa vai pretya narakan upaiti ye kirtita me bhavatas tigma-yatanah
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said
- na
- not
- cet
- if
- iha
- within this life
- eva
- certainly
- apacitim
- counteraction, atonement
- yatha
- duly
- amhasah krtasya
- when one has performed sinful activities
- kuryat
- performs
- manah
- with the mind
- ukta
- words
- panibhih
- and with the senses
- dhruvam
- undoubtedly
- sah
- that person
- vai
- indeed
- pretya
- after death
- narakan
- different varieties of hellish conditions
- upaiti
- attains
- ye
- which
- kirtitah
- were already described
- me
- by me
- bhavatah
- unto you
- tigma-yatanah
- in which there is very terrible suffering
Sukadeva Gosvami replied: My dear King, if before one’s next death whatever impious acts one has performed in this life with his mind, words and body are not counteracted through proper atonement according to the description of the Manu-samhita and other dharma-sastras, one will certainly enter the hellish planes after death and undergo terrible suffering, as I have previously described to you.