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 ||
ပါရာသရက ဆိုသည်– သတ္တဝါတစ်ဦးသည် မွေးဖွားလာသည်နှင့် မိမိကိုယ်တိုင် ပြုခဲ့သော ကံ၏အကျိုးဆက်ကို မလွဲမသွေ ကြုံတွေ့ရသည်။ ယခင်က မပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ဘဲ ဤလောက၌ မည်သူမျှ နှစ်သက်ဖွယ်ဖြစ်စေ မနှစ်သက်ဖွယ်ဖြစ်စေ အကျိုးတစ်စုံတစ်ရာကို မရနိုင်။
पराशर उवाच
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.