The Liberated Sage said, Upon the exhaustion of those deeds capable of prolonging life and bringing on fame which are done in a particular body that the Individual Soul assumes, the embodied Jiva, with the span of his life shortened, begins to do acts hostile to life and hcalth. On the approach of destruction, his understanding deviates from the proper course.
सिद्ध उवाच आयुः कीर्तिकराणीह यानि कृत्यानि सेवते। शरीरग्रहणे यस्मिंस्तेषु क्षीणेषु सर्वशः॥ आयुःक्षयपरीतात्मा विपरीतानि सेवते। बुद्धिावर्तते चास्य विनाशे प्रत्युपस्थिते॥