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    King Janaka asks Rishi Pancashikha how one can avoid old age and death through means like austerities, knowledge, or rituals. Pancashikha responds that while old age and death are not absolutely certain, one who lives long is mortal. He notes that all creatures are inevitably destroyed like those carried off by a river current in the ocean of time where old age and death prey. Thus, given that all beings are eternally reborn yet mortal, there is no reason to rejoice over birth or grieve over death.

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    King Janaka asks Rishi Pancashikha how one can avoid old age and death through means like austerities, knowledge, or rituals. Pancashikha responds that while old age and death are not absolutely certain, one who lives long is mortal. He notes that all creatures are inevitably destroyed like those carried off by a river current in the ocean of time where old age and death prey. Thus, given that all beings are eternally reborn yet mortal, there is no reason to rejoice over birth or grieve over death.

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    Pancashikha Teaches Janaka About Death: Yudhi Hira Uvāca

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    King Janaka asks Rishi Pancashikha how one can avoid old age and death through means like austerities, knowledge, or rituals. Pancashikha responds that while old age and death are not absolutely certain, one who lives long is mortal. He notes that all creatures are inevitably destroyed like those carried off by a river current in the ocean of time where old age and death prey. Thus, given that all beings are eternally reborn yet mortal, there is no reason to rejoice over birth or grieve over death.

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    1 Ādi (225)

    2 Sabhā (72)
    3 Āranyaka (299) Yudhishthira said,
    Moksha Dharma Parva
    4 Virāta (67) yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
    5 Udyoga Parva (197) Pancashikha teaches
    6 Bhīshma (117)
    7 Drona (173) Janaka about death
    8 Karna (69)
    9 Shālya (64) Shānti Parva
    10 Sauptika (18) Chapter 307
    11 Strī Parva (27)
    12 Shānti - 353 chapters
    13 Anushāsana (154)
    14 Ashvamedhika (96)
    15 Āshramavāsika (47)
    16 Mausala (9)
    17 Mahāprasthānika (3) Swami Tadatmananda
    18 Svargārohana (5) Arsha Bodha Center


    By intense austerities, Bhishma siad,
    tapasā vā sumahatā bhīṣma uvāca

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    or by Vedic rituals,
    karmaṇā vā śrutena vā

    or by the use of medicines -


    rasāyana-prayogair vā

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    by what means can one avoid old age and death?
    kair nopaiti jarāntakau (307.2)
    With regard to that, there is an example King Janaka said,
    atrāpy udāharantīmam janaka uvāca

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    in old story
    itihāsaṁ purātanam

    about a dialogue between Pancashikha


    bhikṣoḥ pañcaśikhasyeha

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    and King Janaka.
    saṁvādaṁ janakasya ca (307.3)

    O Pancashikha, by what means Rishi Pancashikha said,


    kena vṛttena bhagavan pañcaśikha uvāca

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    can one avoid old age and death?
    natikrāmej jarāntakau

    By austerities? Or by knowledge?
    tapasā vātha buddhyā vā

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    Or by Vedic rituals?
    karmaṇā vā śrutena vā (307.5)
    For old age and death, there is no cessation, One who follows the path (of life)
    nivṛttir naitayor asti so 'yaṁ prapadyate 'dhvānaṁ

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    but they are not absolutely certain. for a long time is certainly mortal.
    nānivṛttiḥ kathañcana cirāya dhruvam adhruvaḥ

    Days do not cease, The destruction of all creatures


    na hy ahāni nivartante sarva-bhūta-samucchedaḥ

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    nor months, nor seasons. is inevitable, like for one carried off by current.
    na māsā na punaḥ kṣapāḥ (307.6,7) srotasevohyate sadā (307.7,8)

    Swept up in the current, submerged On the path, one gets united with
    uhyamānaṁ nimajjantam pathi saṅgatam evedaṁ

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    without a boat in the ocean of time wives and other relatives.
    aplave kāla-sāgare dārair anyaiś ca bandhubhiḥ

    where crocodiles of old-age and death swim, But he will not dwell forever
    jarā-mṛtyu-mahāgrāhe nāyam atyanta-saṁvāso

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    bo one escapes. with anyone he has met before.
    na kaścid abhipadyate (307.8) labdha-pūrvo hi kenacit (307.9)
    For all creatures, birth and death Thus, when all creatures are
    jarā-mṛtyū hi bhūtānāṁ evam bhūteṣu bhūteṣu

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    are like wolves who eat mortal and eternally reborn,
    khāditārau vṛkāviva nitya-bhūtādhruveṣu ca

    the young, the weak, how can one rejoice over a birth
    balināṁ durbalānāṁ ca kathaṁ hṛṣyeta jāteṣu

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    the small, and the big. and how can one grieve over a death?
    hrasvānāṁ mahatām api (307.11) mṛteṣu ca kathaṁ jvaret (307.12)

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