steed is running incessantly.  If thy eyes be not blind, beholding then that steed incessantly moving forward in its invisible course, do thou set thy heart on righteousness, after hearing what thy preceptors have to say on the question of the next world.  They that fall away from righteousness and that conduct themselves recklessly, that always display malice towards others and betake themselves to evil ways are obliged to assume (physical) bodies in the regions of Yama and suffer diverse afflictions, in consequence of their unrighteous acts of diverse kind.[1716] That king who is devoted to righteousness and who protects and chastises the good and the wicked with discrimination, attains to those regions that belong to man of righteous deeds.  By doing diverse kinds of good acts, he attains to such felicity as is faultless and as is incapable of being attained to by undergoing even thousands of births.[1717] Furious dogs of frightful mien, crows of iron beaks, flocks of ravens and vultures and other birds, and blood-sucking worms, assail the man who transgresses the commands of his parents and preceptors when he goes to hell after death.[1718] That sinful wretch who, in consequence of his recklessness, transgresses the ten boundaries that have been fixed by the Self-born himself, is obliged to pass his time in great affliction in the wild wastes that occur in the dominions of the king of Pitris.[1719] That man who is tainted with cupidity, who is in love with untruth, who always takes a delight in deception and cheating, and who does injuries to others by practising hypocrisy and deception, has to go to deep hell and suffer great woe and affliction for his acts of wickedness.  Such a man is forced to bathe in the broad river called Vaitarani whose waters are scalding, to enter into a forest of trees whose leaves are as sharp as swords, and then to lie down on a bed of battle-axes.  He has thus to pass his days in frightful hell in great affliction.  Thou beholdest only the regions of Brahman and other deities, but thou art blind to that which is the highest (viz., Emancipation).  Alas, thou art ever blind also to that which brings Death on its train (viz., decrepitude and old age).[1720] Go (along the path of Emancipation)!  Why tarriest thou?  A frightful terror, destructive of thy happiness, is before thee!  Do thou take prompt steps for achieving thy Emancipation!  Soon after death thou art sure to be taken before Yama at his command.  For obtaining felicity in the next world, strive to attain to righteousness through the practice of difficult and austere vows.  The puissant Yama, regardless of the sufferings of others, very soon takes the lives of all persons, that is of thyself and thy friends.  There is none capable of resisting him.  Very soon the wind of Yama will blow before thee (and drive thee to his presence).  Very soon wilt thou be taken to that dread presence all alone.  Do thou achieve what will be for thy good there.  Where now is that Death-wind which will blow before