Shloka 33
Jvarotpatti — The Origin and Distribution of Jvara
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पुण्यपापविनाशान्ते पुण्यपापसमीरित: । देहं विशति कालेन ततो<यं कर्मसम्भवम्
puṇyapāpavināśānte puṇyapāpasamīritaḥ | dehaṁ viśati kālena tato 'yaṁ karmasambhavam ||
Dijo Asita: «Cuando los efectos del mérito y del pecado han llegado a su término, el ser —impulsado por esas mismas fuerzas de mérito y de pecado— entra, con el paso del tiempo, en un cuerpo. Así, esta existencia encarnada nace del propio karma».
असित उवाच
Educational Q&A
Embodiment is governed by moral causality: when the stored results of merit and sin reach their completion, the jīva is driven by those karmic forces to take up another body; thus worldly existence is karma-born.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation, the sage Asita explains the mechanism of rebirth: the exhaustion and momentum of puṇya and pāpa determine the next entry into a body over time.