ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [36]
Gātha 34
Under the spell of delusion (moha), both, the son and the father, try to deceive each other for obtaining the mundane pleasures of kingship. It is strange that this silly world does not see the god-of-death (yāma) [note 1] who is incessantly snatching away this body, placed in the jaws of birth and death.
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Note 1:
Yāma, the personified death or god of death. For a meditation on soul surviving death is in theKaṭha Upaniṣad: The sacrifice of Naciketas Nakecitas, cf.
‘Saṁvara [part 230-231]’ https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/899065793485019.