Kāla

1. O Sage, this is the character of the (mortal) beings.  They are like waves in a sea, which are of multifarious variety and of strange splendour and multiplicity like creepers in spring.

2. Yakshas, gandharvas, kinnaras and men who conquered their mental delusions and blessed by a perception of the nature of the seen and unseen worlds can move about as ‘Sivanmuktas’ in this world.

3. The others are stupids.  They resemble a log or wall.  Why do such people worry about reducing attachments delusions?

4. -5 Only those, who are aware of this world and are inclined towards self-realization, pleasantly ramble around and delve into the scriptures created by experiences (in the process of self realization).  Their mind indulges in inquiry into scriptures with a goal to enlighten themselves and destroy all their sins (caused by bad actions).

6. All mental delusions dissolve by the study of scriptures (and inquiry into self through them) like darkness which is dispelled by the movement of sun in the sky.

7. There is no permanent (or lasting) delivery from mental delusions.  Mental delusions casts a deep shadow and binds like fog and holds like a ghost.

8. In all embodies beings corporeal body is the one that suffers both joys and sorrows.  Body is mind O sage, not the flesh filled one only.

9. From the perceptions of the Supreme, this body is an alternative continuance of mind.  It is not this flesh and bone skeletal corporeal structure made of five elements.

10. O muni, your son has received the fruits of whatever he has done with his mental body.  In this we are not the culprits.

11. Whatever is done in the world prompted by one’s ‘vāsanas’, the fruits will follow according to them; not because of anything else.

12. Is there even a lord of the universe who can do works with the same power as that of one who works prompted by the power of accumulated (mental) vasanas?

13. Heaven, hill and associated pleasures, birth and death, and desires concerning them-are all due to mental contemplation about them.  Even a slight perturbation of the mind is grief-giving.

14. O Bhagwan, what is the purpose of using all the words in a dictionary (to describe various things)?  Let us move to the place where your son is.

15. Your son, Sukra, has enjoyed all pleasures with his mental body.  Then he sat in tapas on the Samanga coast after contact with the ambrosian rays of moon.

16. The vital aims of Sukra, liberated from the mind, entered into the semen of a being after contact with Indra, and took birth.

17. Saying this as if in a smiling mood, Bhagawan Kāla (yama) held the hand of Sage Bhrigu and got up.  It was like sun holding the hand of moon.

18. Then Bhagawan Bhrigu got up from his seat saying ‘oh what a strange thing is ‘niyati’ (the law of existence).  It was like sun rising out of the eastern sky.

19. Then they both got ready to fly across the sky.  They appeared like sun and moon.

Sri Valmiki

20. As this was said by Sage Vasista, it was evening with sun moving down the horizon.  People left for their evening ablutions.  They returned in the morning to the assembly as the sun rose.