“Then the remaining fourth group: those fallen from karma. For them there is neither merit nor sin, neither good nor bad, neither morality nor discipline, neither śāstra nor Dharma, neither God nor ghost: nothing at all. Such people may be described as beasts in human form. In the world, those who belong to this group are found in great numbers. Momentary pleasure, enjoyment, food and ease are their aim. One cannot even say they are monkeys in human form. Monkeys at least leave one place and leap to another, leave one branch and leap to another. These are not like that; they let go of what they have only once they have taken hold of something else. That is, on bottle-gourd plants and on the branches of trees there lives a kind of worm. When it moves from one leaf to another, it first grips the one leaf in front with its mouth and then lets go of the other leaf behind. In the same way these people too, like worms, leave the body ready to take hold of another body at that very moment. For them there is no world; none comes to them. Births and deaths alone are their attainments. Until a holy time comes for them, they go on making this same kind of journey. For the prāṇa to leave, and for the prāṇa to be born too, a holy time is the measure and the chief thing, brother-in-law! Yogis give up the prāṇa only when a holy time comes. That is why it is said, ‘For the good, death itself is the witness.’ Even death needs a good time.” Taking as his basis these very words that Śrī Kṛṣṇa had spoken, Arjuna asked the following question.