Devanagari
पतित: स्खलितो भग्न: सन्दष्टस्तप्त आहत: ।
हरिरित्यवशेनाह पुमान्नार्हति यातना: ॥ १५ ॥
Verse text
patitaḥ skhalito bhagnaḥ
sandaṣṭas tapta āhataḥ
harir ity avaśenāha
pumān nārhati yātanāḥ
Synonyms
patitaḥ
—
fallen down
;
skhalitaḥ
—
slipped
;
bhagnaḥ
—
having broken his bones
;
sandaṣṭaḥ
—
bitten
;
taptaḥ
—
severely attacked by fever or similar painful conditions
;
āhataḥ
—
injured
;
hariḥ
—
Lord Kṛṣṇa
;
iti
—
thus
;
avaśena
—
accidentally
;
āha
—
chants
;
pumān
—
a person
;
na
—
not
;
arhati
—
deserves
;
yātanāḥ
—
hellish conditions .
Translation
If one chants the holy name of Hari and then dies because of an accidental misfortune, such as falling from the top of a house, slipping and suffering broken bones while traveling on the road, being bitten by a serpent, being afflicted with pain and high fever, or being injured by a weapon, one is immediately absolved from having to enter hellish life, even though he is sinful.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
A person who chants the name of the Lord while falling from a cliff, stumbling on the road, receiving injury his body, being bitten by snakes, being burned with fever or being attacked with sticks will not suffer hellish punishment.
Besides the above mentioned four types of chanting there is a fifth, chanting in conditions beyond one’s control, with different varieties. Chanting while falling from a building, stumbling on the road, breaking ones limbs, being bitten by a snake or other animal, being burned by fever, or being attacked with sticks, a person who is not a karmī, jṣānī etc. will still be free from hell.
Purport
As stated in
Bhagavad-gītā
(8.6)
:
yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ
tyajaty ante kalevaram
taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya
sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ
“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” If one practices chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa
mantra,
he is naturally expected to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa when he meets with some accident. Even without such practice, however, if one somehow or other chants the holy name of the Lord (Hare Kṛṣṇa) when he meets with an accident and dies, he will be saved from hellish life after death.