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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 30 ]
saḥ—he; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; trasta—frightened; hṛdayaḥ—his heart; śakṛt—stool; mūtram—urine; vimuñcati—he passes.
TRANSLATION
At death, he sees the messengers of the lord of death come before him, their eyes full of wrath, and in great fear he passes stool and urine.
PURPORT
There are two kinds of transmigration of a living entity after passing away from the present body. One kind of transmigration is to go to the controller of sinful activities, who is known as Yamarāja, and the other is to go to the higher planets up to Vaikuṇṭha. Here Lord Kapila describes how persons engaged in activities of sense gratification to maintain a family are treated by the messengers of Yamarāja, called Yamadūtas. At the time of death the Yamadūtas become the custodians of those persons who have strongly gratified their senses. They take charge of the dying man and take him to the planet where Yamarāja resides. The conditions there are described in the following verses.
TEXT 20
यातनादेह आश्रत्य पाशैर्बद्ध्वा गले बलात् । नयतो दीर्घमध्वानं दण्ड्यं राजभटा यथा ॥२०॥
yātanā-deha āvṛtya pāśair baddhvā gale balāt nayato dīrgham adhvānaṁ daṇḍyaṁ rāja-bhaṭā yathā
yātanā—for punishment; dehe—his body; āvṛtya—covering; pāśaiḥ—with ropes; baddhvā—binding; gale—by the neck; balāt—by force; nayataḥ—they lead; dīrgham—long; adhvānam—distance; daṇḍyam—a criminal; rāja-bhaṭāḥ—the king's soldiers; yathā—as.
TRANSLATION
As a criminal is arrested for punishment by the constables of the state, a person engaged in criminal sense gratification is similarly arrested by