The dangers of ailment, fire, water, weapons, hunger, poison, fever, and death, and falls from elevated places, visit a man according to the Destiny under which he is born. It is generally seen in this world, that somebody, without committing any sin, suffers many miseries while another, having committed sins, is not pressed down by the weight of calamity.
व्याधिरग्निर्जलं शस्त्रं बुभुक्षाश्चापदो विषम्। ज्वरच मरणं जन्तोरुच्चाच्च पतनं तथा॥ निर्माणे यस्य यद् दिष्टं तेन गच्छति सेतुना। दृश्यते नाप्यतिक्रामन्न निष्क्रान्तोऽथवा पुनः॥ दृश्यते चाप्यतिक्रामन्ननिग्राह्योऽथवा पुनः।