Karika 55

तत्र जरामरणकृतं दुःखं प्राप्नोति चेतनः पुरुषः।
लिङ्गस्याविनिवृत्तेस्तस्माद्दुःखं स्वभावेन॥ ५५॥

Translation by Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1837): There does sentient soul experience pain, arising from decay and death, until it be released from its person: wherefore pain is of the essence (of bodily existence).

Translation by John Davies (1881): There (in the world of men) the sentient (or intelligent) soul experiences pain arising from old age and death until the liṅga has ceased to be; wherefore pain is from the nature of the (liṅga).

Translation by Ganganath Jha (1896): There (in the world) does the Sentient Spirit experience pain, arising from decay and death, due to the non-discrimination of the Spirit from the body, until it is released from its person (until the dissolution of the astral body); wherefore pain is natural.

Translation by Nandalal Sinha (1915): Therein does intelligent Puruṣa experience pain caused by decay and death, on account of the non-cessation of, or till the cessation of, the Subtile Body: wherefore pain is the natural order of things.

Translation by Har Dutt Sharma (1933): There, the intelligent Spirit experiences pain due to old age and death, till the cessation of the Liṅga; hence misery is of the nature of things.

Translation by Radhanath Phukan (1960): Here (i.e., in these fourteen different orders of the creation) the conscious Puruṣa has to undergo the misery consequent on decay by old age and death, until the Liṁga ceases to function; hence misery is naturally inevitable.

Translation by Swami Virupakshananda (1995): Therein does the sentient Spirit experience pain caused by decay and death on account of the non-cessation of the subtle body. Therefore, pain is in the very nature of things.

Translation by G. Srinivasan (recent): Therefore the interactive process of decaying and dying interactive stresses creates the dynamic state of the Purusha at the nuclear core through absorption of stresses. The diminishing vorticular interactive activity by the process of super positioning continues until the minimized interactions is absorbed to form the coherent state through the self similar interactive mode of action.