Shloka 12
अचोटद्यमानानि यथा पुष्पाणि च फलानि च । स्वं काल॑ नातिवर्तन्ते तथा कर्म पुरा कृतम्,जैसे फूल और फल किसीकी प्रेरणाके बिना ही अपने समयपर वृक्षोंमें लग जाते हैं, उसी प्रकार पहलेके किये हुए कर्म भी अपने फलभोगके समयका उल्लंघन नहीं करते हैं
acoṭadyamānāni yathā puṣpāṇi ca phalāni ca | svaṃ kālaṃ nātivartante tathā karma purā kṛtam ||
ビーシュマは言った。「花や実が、誰に促されるでもなく、それぞれの季節に樹上に現れるように、過去に為した行いもまた、果を結ぶべき定めの時を越えることはない。業の成熟は、そのふさわしい刻が来れば必ず到来する。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Karma ripens according to its own proper time: past actions inevitably yield results when the conditions and season are ready, just as a tree naturally produces flowers and fruits in due season without external coercion.
In the instruction-heavy Shanti Parva, Bhishma is teaching about dharma and the workings of moral causality. Here he uses a natural analogy—seasonal flowering and fruiting—to explain that the fruition of previously performed actions cannot be hastened or avoided beyond its destined time.