यथा हि सार्थं गच्छन्तं ब्रूयात् कश्चित् पथि स्थितः। अहमप्यागमिष्यामि पृष्ठतो भवतामिति ॥ एवं पूर्वैर्गतो मार्गः पैतृपितामहैध्रुवः। तमापन्नः कथं शोचेद् यस्य नास्ति व्यतिक्रमः॥ वयसः पतमानस्य स्रोतसो वानिवर्तिनः। आत्मा सुखे नियोक्तव्यः सुखभाजः प्रजाः स्मृताः।।३१।
yathā hi sārthaṃ gacchantaṃ brūyāt kaścit pathi sthitaḥ| ahamapyāgamiṣyāmi pṛṣṭhato bhavatāmiti || evaṃ pūrvairgato mārgaḥ paitṛpitāmahaidhruvaḥ| tamāpannaḥ kathaṃ śoced yasya nāsti vyatikramaḥ|| vayasaḥ patamānasya srotaso vānivartinaḥ| ātmā sukhe niyoktavyaḥ sukhabhājaḥ prajāḥ smṛtāḥ||31|
English Meaning
As while one is proceeding on a road, another stationed by the way, says, 'I too will go in your wake,' even so, the way that has been followed by our predecessors, (must be followed as well by us.) Why should people mourn for deceased relatives), when they are themselves subject to the fate that knows no turning? (Perceiving the destruction of) life declining, like to a current that never turns back, one should engage his soul in happiness; for all men are said to be born for the same.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)