Listen to me as I tell you, what the different acts are by doing which individuals soul, Stupefied by folly, has to take birth in different orders of being, as declared in the Vedas, the scriptures, and the histories, Mortals have to go to the dreadful regions of Yama.
कर्मणा येन येनेह यस्यां योनौ प्रजायते। जीवो मोहसमायुक्तस्तन्मे निगदतः शृणु॥ यदेतदुच्यते शास्त्रे सेतिहासे च च्छन्दसि। यमस्य विषयं घोरं मया लोकः प्रपद्यते॥