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Chapter 2
It means that these are grieved at, only because of ignorance or lack of discrimination. Whatever circumstances, in the form of birth-death, profit-loss etc., a man finds himself in, are result of his fate viz., his previous actions. It is sheer ignorance to feel happy or sad, in those, favourable or unfavourable circumstances, because these are transient.
Prajnavadarimsca bhasase:-On the one hand, you speak words of wisdom, but on the other hand, you grieve. It shows that you are merely talking tall, actually you are not wise, because the wise do not grieve, for anyone.
You also say that with the destruction of a family, its age old traditions disappear, women become depraved and there ensues an intermixture of castes, which leads to hell and deprived of the ritual offerings of rice-balls (Pinda) and water, their manes also fall—these words, as of the wise, also prove that a body is perishable, while the soul is imperishable. Had the soul not been imperishable, how could you have feared the fall of the killers and members of the family? Further, you would not have worried about the fall of manes. Your worry and fear prove, that a body is perishable while its master, the soul is eternal. So it is not right to grieve for them.
Gatasunagatasamsca:-It is out of ignorance, that you grieve for the bodies because these will all perish. You should not lament for them. Such grief is a mistake.
It is also a great mistake to grieve for those who are dead because they suffer torture, if their people, grieve for them. The departing soul has to drink and eat the tears and phlegm[1]shed by people here.
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