It is just
as when important lamas or dignitaries travel, their monks and attendants go on
before them to prepare the place and the kitchen so that they can welcome them,
it is said that in exactly the same way, due to their specific karmic
perceptions, evildoers will behold the henchmen of Yama. Welcoming them and
leading them to hell, while those who have practiced virtue will be greeted by celestial
beings and by their gurus, and will be led to the pure realms.
Summing up
the situation, Shantiveda says that the thought never came to his mind that he
himself was a brief and transient phenomenon – like a traveler passing through
or an insect that lives for only a season. He does not know where he comes from
and where he will go. And the time will soon arrive when he will cease to be.
Without knowledge and understanding, he says, he has clung to the notion that
things are permanent; he was confused about what was to be done and what was
not to be done.