Shloka 1
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brāhmaṇa uvāca | śubhānām aśubhānāṁ ca neha nāśo 'sti karmaṇām | prāpya prāpyānupacyante kṣetre kṣetre tathā tathā ||
The Brahmin said: “O Kāśyapa, in this world the deeds one has done—whether auspicious or inauspicious—do not perish without being experienced. Again and again they ripen, taking effect in one field after another, in just the corresponding ways.”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Actions (karma), whether good or bad, inevitably mature into results (phala). They do not vanish on their own; rather, they bear fruit across successive embodiments or life-situations, in a manner consistent with the nature of the deed.
A Brahmin addresses Kāśyapa and begins an instruction on moral causality: the inevitability of karmic fruition, implying that one’s experiences across different ‘fields’ (bodies/contexts) are shaped by prior deeds.