Shloka 73
Śama-prāptiḥ — Gautamī–Lubdhaka–Pannaga–Mṛtyu–Kāla-saṃvāda
Restraint through the Analysis of Karma and Time
कर्मदायादवॉल्लोक: कर्मसम्बन्धलक्षण: । कर्माणि चोदयन्तीह यथान्योन्यं तथा वयम्
karmadāyādavāl loko karma-sambandha-lakṣaṇaḥ | karmāṇi codayantīha yathānyonyaṃ tathā vayam ||
時は言った。「この世では、業は人に随う、まるで相続人のように――子や孫が家系を継ぐがごとく。業こそが、快と苦との結びつきを示す印である。ここでは行為が互いに次々と促し合う。そのように、われらもまた、ただ業によってのみ動かされる。」
काल उवाच
Educational Q&A
Karma is inseparable from a person: it follows like an heir and becomes the defining basis for one’s experience of pleasure and pain. Even cosmic forces such as Time operate in accordance with the chain of actions and their consequences.
Kāla (Time) is speaking, explaining that events in the world are driven by karma. Actions generate further actions, and the speaker emphasizes that even ‘we’ (the powers governing events) are prompted by karma’s causal order.