Shloka 8
अव्यक्त–प्रकृति–इन्द्रियविचारः
The Unmanifest, Prakṛtis, and the Sense-Complex
नाधर्म: कारणापेक्षी कर्तारमभिमुज्चति । कर्ता खलु यथाकालं तत: समभिपद्यते
nādharmo kāraṇāpekṣī kartāram abhimuñcati | kartā khalu yathākālaṃ tataḥ samabhipadyate ||
Adharma tidak menunggu adanya kesempatan langsung untuk berbuah; ia tidak melepaskan pelakunya. Ketika waktunya tiba, pelaku itu sendiri niscaya berjumpa dengan akibat dosa tersebut dan harus menanggungnya.
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Adharma clings to its agent and yields its result inevitably; even if the consequence is delayed, time ripens the fruit of wrongdoing, and the doer must face it.
Parāśara is instructing the listener in Shānti Parva on ethical causality: wrongful acts are not nullified by delay or lack of immediate punishment; the moral result follows the perpetrator until the right time for fruition.