Shloka 30
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
कभी यज्ञ करता और कराता, कभी वेद पढ़ता और पढ़ाता तथा कभी दान करता और प्रतिग्रह लेता है। इसी प्रकार वह दूसरे-दूसरे कार्य भी किया करता है ।।
janma-mṛtyu-vivāde ca tathā viśasane ’pi ca | śubhāśubha-mayaṁ sarvam etad āhuḥ kriyā-patham ||
ヴァシシュタは言った。「あるときは供犠を行い、また行わせ、あるときはヴェーダを誦し、また教え、あるときは施し、また供物を受け取る。かくして他のさまざまな行いにも及ぶ。生と死の輪廻のうちに、論争のうちに、さらには暴力の行為においてさえ—賢者たちは、これらすべてが行為の道（kriyāpatha）に属すると言う。そこでは業の果は吉と凶とが交じり合って現れるのだ。」
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames worldly life as kriyāpatha—the path of action—where experiences and deeds (including birth, death, conflict, and even violence) are bound up with mixed moral consequences (śubha and aśubha). It highlights how action in saṁsāra tends to generate entangling results rather than pure freedom.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing the listener in a reflective, ethical-philosophical mode typical of the Śānti Parva, classifying various human conditions and behaviors—conflict and violence included—as part of the worldly course of karma, characterized by alternating or mixed outcomes.