As the final place of all rivers is the ocean, so the end of all embodied creatures is death. Those persons that know this well are never stupefied, O holder of the thunder-bolt. 10. They, however, who, overwhelmed with Darkness and loss of judgement, do not know this, they whose understanding is lost, sink under the load of misfortune.
भूतानां निधनं निष्ठा स्रोतसामिव सागरः। नैतत् सम्यग्विजानन्तो नरा मुह्यन्ति वज्रधृक्॥ य त्वेवं नाभिजानन्ति रजोमोहपरायणाः। ते कृच्छं प्राप्य सीदन्ति बुद्धिर्येषां प्रणश्यति॥