By performing deeds good or bad, one pleases his people. Death seizes him possessed of sons and animals, and with mind given to them, and runs away like a tiger carrying away a sleeping deer. While still engaged in acquiring various objects of desire, and while still unsatiated with their enjoyment, Death attacks him and runs away like a she-wolf seizing a sheep and running away with it.-_'This has been done,-this remain to be done this other is half done'-one may say thus, but Death, not caring for a person's desire to finish his unfinished acts, seizes and drags him away. Death seizes and carries away one who has not yet gained the fruit of what he has already done, amongst those attached to action, one busied with his field or shop or house. Death seizes and carries away the weak, the strong, the wise, the brave, the idiotic, the learned, or him who has not yet obtained the gratification of any of his desires. Death, decrepitude, disease, sorrow, and many things of a similar nature, cannot he shunned by mortals. How then O father, can you sit so at your ease? As soon as an embodied creature is born, Decrepitude and Death come and possess him for his destruction.
कृत्वा कार्यमकार्यं वा तुष्टिमेषां प्रयच्छति। तं पुत्रपशुसम्पन्नं व्यासक्तमनसं नरम्॥ सुप्तं व्याघ्रं महौघो वा मृत्युरादाय गच्छति। संचिन्वानकमेवैनं कामानामवितृप्तकम्॥ वृकीवोरणमासाद्य मृत्युरादाय गच्छति। इदं कृतमिदं कार्यमिदमन्यत् कृताकृतम्॥ एवमीहासमायुक्तं मृत्युरादाय गच्छति। कृतानां फलमप्राप्तं कार्याणां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्॥ क्षेत्रापणगृहासक्तं मृत्युरादाय गच्छति। दुर्बलं बलवन्तं च प्राशं शूरं जडं कविम्॥ अप्राप्तसर्वकामार्थं मृत्युदाराय गच्छति। मृत्युर्जरा च व्याधिश्च दुःखं चानेककारणम्॥ असंत्याज्यं यदा मत्यैः किं स्वस्थ इव तिष्ठसि। जातमेवान्तकोऽन्ताय जरा चाभ्येति देहिनम्॥