कुतः किलाऽत्र पृथ्व्यादेः कीदृशः संभवः कथम् । एतदाक्रमणे मृत्यो तस्मान्मा यत्नवान् भव ॥ ४३ ॥
kutaḥ kilā’tra pṛthvyādēḥ kīdṛśaḥ saṁbhavaḥ katham | ētadākramaṇē mṛtyō tasmānmā yatnavān bhava || 43 ||
Translation
From where, then, could earth and the rest be here, of what kind, and how could they arise? So, Death, make no effort to overcome him.
Word by word
- kutaḥ
- from where
- kila
- then
- atra
- here
- pṛthvī
- earth
- ādēḥ
- and the rest
- kīdṛśaḥ
- of what kind
- saṁbhavaḥ
- could arise
- katham
- how
- ētad
- (etat) him
- ākramaṇē
- to overcome
- mṛtyō
- Death
- tasmān
- (tasmāt) so
- mā
- make no
- yatnavān
- effort
- bhava
- make
Meaning
Yama concludes: where even the movements of awareness are awareness, there is no room for earth and the rest, neither whence nor what nor how. The commentary: where awareness does not suffer its feelings, how could it suffer earth? So there is no hope of overcoming him. Death is told, gently, to give up.