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Hiraṇyakaśipu, King of the Demons
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यत्रागतस्तत्र गतं मनुष्यं  
 स्वयं सधर्मा अपि शोचन्त्यपार्थम् ॥३७॥
śrī-yama uvāca  
 aho amīṣām vayasādhikānām  
 vipaśyatām loka-vidhim vimohaḥ  
 yatrāgatas tatra gatam manuṣyam  
 svayam sadharmā api śocanty apārtham
śrī-yamaḥ uvāca —Śrī Yamarāja said;  aho —alas;  amīṣām —of these;  vayasā —by age;  adhikānām —of those advanced;  vipaśyatām —seeing every day;  loka-vidhim —the law of nature (that everyone dies);  vimohaḥ —the bewilderment;  yatra —from where;  āgataḥ —came;  tatra —there;  gatam —returned;  manuṣyam —the man;  svayam —themselves;  sa-dharmāḥ —similar in nature (prone to die);  api —although;  śocanti —they lament;  apārtham —uselessly.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Yamarāja said:  Alas, how amazing it is! These persons, who are older than me, have full experience that hundreds and thousands of living entities have taken birth and died. Thus they should understand that they also are apt to die, yet still they are bewildered. The conditioned soul comes from an unknown place and returns after death to that same unknown place. There is no exception to this rule, which is conducted by material nature. Knowing this, why do they uselessly lament?
PURPORT
The Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (2.28):
avyaktādīni bhūtāni  
 vyakta-madhyāni bhārata  
 avyakta-nidhanāny eva  
 tatra kā paridevanā
“All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?”