जातस्य मृत्युर्ध्रुव एव सर्वत: प्रतिक्रिया यस्य न चेह क्लृप्ता । लोको यशश्चाथ ततो यदि ह्यमुं को नाम मृत्युं न वृणीत युक्तम् ॥ ३२ ॥
jatasya mrtyur dhruva eva sarvatah pratikriya yasya na ceha klpta loko yasas catha tato yadi hy amum ko nama mrtyum na vrnita yuktam
- jatasya
- of one who has taken birth (all living beings)
- mrtyuh
- death
- dhruvah
- inevitable
- eva
- indeed
- sarvatah
- everywhere in the universe
- pratikriya
- counteraction
- yasya
- of which
- na
- not
- ca
- also
- iha
- in this material world
- klpta
- devised
- lokah
- promotion to higher planets
- yasah
- reputation and glory
- ca
- and
- atha
- then
- tatah
- from that
- yadi
- if
- hi
- indeed
- amum
- that
- kah
- who
- nama
- indeed
- mrtyum
- death
- na
- not
- vrnita
- would accept
- yuktam
- suitable
Vrtrasura said: All living entities who have taken birth in this material world must die. Surely, no one in this world has found any means to be saved from death. Even providence has not provided a means to escape it. Under the circumstances, death being inevitable, if one can gain promotion to the higher planeary systems and be always celebrated here by dying a suitable death, what man will not accept such a glorious death?