SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 37]Hira1,1yaka8ipu, King of the Demons97Sf lildSf iRi f.{ M 31N it*tq 11\911sri-yama uvacaaho ami$(im vayasadhikdruimvipruyatam loka-vidhim vimohab,yatragatas tatra gatam manyamsvayam sadharma api socanty apdrthamsri-yamab, umca-Sri Yarnarlija said; aho-alas; amf$am-of these;vayasa-by age; adhikdnam-of those advanced; vipruyatam-seeingevery day; loka-vidhim-the law of nature (that everyone dies);vimohab,-the bewilderment; yatra-from where; agatab,-came;tatra-there; gatam-returned; manyam-the man; svayam-themselves;sa-dharmab,-similar in nature (prone to die); api-although;socanti-they lament; apartham-uselessly.TRANSLATIONSri Yamarija said: Alas, how amazing it is! These persons, whoare older than me, have full experience that hundreds and thousandsof living entities have taken birth and died. Thus theyshould understand that they also are apt to die, yet still they arebewildered. The conditioned soul comes from an unknown placeand returns after death to that same unknown place. There is noexception to this rule, which is conducted by material nature.Knowing this, why do they uselessly lament?PURPORTThe Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (2.28):avyaktadini bhutanivyakta-madhyani bharataavyakta-nidharuiny evatatra ka paridevarui"All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in theirinterim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So whatneed is there for lamentation?"