O best of Brahmanas, how is it that the consequences of the good or evil acts of an embodied being follow him in this world or after his death in the next?
देही च देहं संत्यज्य मृग्यमाणः शुभाशुभैः। कधं संयुज्यते प्रेत्य इह वा द्विजसत्तम॥