श्रीयम उवाच अहो अमीषां वयसाधिकानां विपश्यतां लोकविधिं विमोह: । यत्रागतस्तत्र गतं मनुष्यं स्वयं सधर्मा अपि शोचन्त्यपार्थम् ॥ ३७ ॥
sri-yama uvaca aho amisam vayasadhikanam vipasyatam loka-vidhim vimohah yatragatas tatra gatam manusyam svayam sadharma api socanty apartham
- sri-yamah uvaca
- Sri Yamaraja said
- aho
- alas
- amisam
- of these
- vayasa
- by age
- adhikanam
- of those advanced
- vipasyatam
- seeing every day
- loka-vidhim
- the law of nature (that everyone dies)
- vimohah
- the bewilderment
- yatra
- from where
- agatah
- came
- tatra
- there
- gatam
- returned
- manusyam
- the man
- svayam
- themselves
- sa-dharmah
- similar in nature (prone to die)
- api
- although
- socanti
- they lament
- apartham
- uselessly
Sri Yamaraja said: Alas, how amazing it is! These persons, who are older than me, have full experience that hundreds and thousands of living entities have taken birth and died. Thus they should understand that they also are apt to die, yet still they are bewildered. The conditioned soul comes from an unknown place and returns after death to that same unknown place. There is no exception to this rule, which is conducted by material nature. Knowing this, why do they uselessly lament?