The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 179

p. 179

कथमेतदवगम्यते ‘प्रमादो मृत्युरप्रमादोऽमृतत्वम्’ इति? तत्राह—

In plain words

But how do we know this — that inattention is death, and unbroken attention is deathlessness? To that, he says:

Close to the Sanskrit

How is this understood — 'negligence is death, non-negligence is immortality'? In that matter he says—