Shloka 30
अव्यक्त–प्रकृति–इन्द्रियविचारः
The Unmanifest, Prakṛtis, and the Sense-Complex
स्वयंकृतानि कर्माणि जातो जन्तु: प्रपद्यते । नाकृत्वा लभते कश्ित् किंचिदत्र प्रियाप्रियम्
svayaṃkṛtāni karmāṇi jāto jantuḥ prapadyate | nākṛtvā labhate kaścit kiṃcid atra priyāpriyam ||
ജന്മം നേടിയ ജീവി താൻ തന്നെയുണ്ടാക്കിയ കര്മ്മങ്ങളുടെ ഫലത്തെ തന്നെ അനുഭവിക്കുന്നു; മുമ്പ് ഒന്നും ചെയ്യാതെ ഈ ലോകത്ത് ആരും ഇഷ്ടമോ അനിഷ്ടമോ ആയ ഫലം നേടുന്നില്ല.
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
That pleasure and pain arise from one’s own past actions (karma-phala). No one receives desirable or undesirable outcomes without having performed the causal deeds; this affirms ethical responsibility and the law of moral causation across births.
Parāśara is instructing his listener within the Śānti Parva’s didactic setting, emphasizing why beings experience varied fortunes: they are encountering the ripened results of their own previously performed actions, not arbitrary reward or punishment.