Shloka 28
पञ्चवर्णोत्पत्तिः — The Origin of the Five-Colored Fiery Being and Ritual-Disruptor Lineages
इस मानवलोकमें मनुष्यके किये हुए कर्मको (उस कतकि सिवा) दूसरा कोई नहीं भोगता है। उसके द्वारा जो कुछ ही कर्म किया गया है, उसे वह स्वयं ही भोगेगा। किये हुए कर्मोका कभी नाश नहीं होता ।। सुपुण्यशीला हि भवन्ति पुण्या नराधमा: पापकृतो भवन्ति । नरो<नुयातस्त्विह कर्मभि: स्वै- सतत: समुत्पद्यति भावितस्तै:,पुण्यात्मा मनुष्य पुण्यकर्मोंका अनुष्ठान करते हैं और नीच मनुष्य पापमें प्रवृत्त होते हैं। यहाँ अपने किये हुए कर्म मनुष्यका अनुसरण करते हैं और उनसे प्रभावित होकर वह दूसरा जन्म धारण करता है
iha mānavaloke manuṣyeṇa kṛtaṃ karma (tasya kartur vinā) anyaḥ kaścid na bhunkte | yena yad eva karma kṛtaṃ tat sa svayam eva bhokṣyate | kṛtasya karmāṇo nāśo na kadācana || supuṇyaśīlā hi bhavanti puṇyā narādhamāḥ pāpakṛto bhavanti | naro ’nuyātas tv iha karmabhiḥ svaiḥ satataḥ samutpadyati bhāvitais taiḥ ||
The hunter says: In this human world, no one else experiences the results of a person’s deeds—only the doer. Whatever action one has performed, one must oneself undergo its fruit; deeds once done do not simply vanish. Those of truly virtuous conduct become meritorious, while the base sink into wrongdoing. Here, a person is followed by his own actions, and shaped by them he continually takes up another birth.
व्याध उवाच
Educational Q&A
Each person alone experiences the results of their own actions; deeds do not perish, and they shape one’s future condition and rebirth. Virtue leads to merit and uplift, while wrongdoing leads to degradation.
The hunter (vyādha) is instructing his listener in dharma by emphasizing karmic accountability: one cannot transfer the consequences of one’s deeds to another, and one’s actions follow one beyond this life.