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नन्वन्य एव सर्वजन्तूनामुपसंहारको मृत्युः प्रसिद्धः, कथमुच्यते ‘प्रमादं वै मृत्युमहं ब्रवीमि’ इति ? तत्राह—न वै मृत्युरिति ।न वै मृत्युर्व्याघ्र इव अत्ति भक्षयति प्राणिनः ।यदि भक्षयेत् व्याघ्रस्येव अस्य रूपमुपलभ्येत; न च उपलभ्यते ।तस्मान्नास्त्येव मृत्युः ॥
In plain words
But hold on — everyone knows death as something else entirely: the one that gathers up every living creature. So how can he say, 'Heedlessness — that is what I call death'? To this he answers: Death does not eat. It does not devour living beings the way a tiger devours them. If it did, it would have a form you could see, just as a tiger has one. No such form is ever found. So there is no death at all.
Close to the Sanskrit
But surely death, well known as the gatherer-up of all creatures, is something quite other than that; how then is it said, 'Heedlessness indeed I call death'? To that he says: 'Death indeed does not...' — Death indeed does not eat, that is, devour, living beings the way a tiger does. If it did devour them, its form would be perceived, as a tiger's form is; and it is not perceived. Therefore death does not exist at all.