Chandogya Upanishad 5.7

ते ह प्राणाः प्रजापतिं पितरमेत्योचुर्भगवन्को नः श्रेष्ठ इति तान्होवाच यस्मिन्व उत्क्रान्ते शरीरं पापिष्ठतरमिव दृश्येत स वः श्रेष्ठ इति ॥ ७ ॥

5.1.7 — te ha pranah prajapatim pitarametyochurbhagavanko nah shreshtha iti tanhovacha yasminva utkrante shariram papishthataramiva drishyeta sa vah shreshtha iti || 7 ||

Those Vital Breaths went to Father Prajapati, and said: * Sir ! Which of us is the most superior? ' He said to them: 'That one of you after whose going off the body appears as if it were the very worst off— he is the most superior of you/

वे प्राण पिता प्रजापति के पास जाकर बोले — 'भगवन्, हममें कौन श्रेष्ठ है?' उन्होंने उनसे कहा — 'तुममें से जिसके उत्क्रमण पर शरीर अत्यन्त दुःखी-सा दिखायी दे, वही तुम्हारा श्रेष्ठ है।'