Shloka 35
Adhyaya 14 — The Messenger of Yama Explains Karmic Retribution and the Causes of Naraka Torments
उपभोगात्क्षयं याति भुज्यमानमिवाशनम् ।
एवमेतॆ महापापं यातनाभिरहर्निशम् ॥
upabhogāt kṣayaṃ yāti bhujyamānam ivāśanam / evam ete mahāpāpaṃ yātanābhir aharniśam
それが受けられて経験されると、食物が食されて尽きるように、やがて尽き果てる。ゆえにこれらの衆生は、昼夜の責め苦によって大罪を尽くすのである。
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FAQs
Karmic results are finite and are ‘spent’ through experience—painful states like hell are depicted as mechanisms by which severe wrongdoing is worked off.
Dharma and afterlife doctrine; not a primary lakṣaṇa.
The ‘food’ analogy implies a conservation-like model: karmic stock diminishes through fruition (vipāka), suggesting a cyclic accounting of moral energy rather than eternal damnation.