Padma Purana — Bhumi Khanda, Shloka 15
Karmic Causality, Fate, and the Supremacy of Food-Charity
within Guru-tīrtha Glorification
तिर्यक्त्वं स्थावरत्वं वा याति जंतुः स्वकर्मभिः । स एव तु तथा भुंक्ते नित्यं विहितमात्मनः
tiryaktvaṃ sthāvaratvaṃ vā yāti jaṃtuḥ svakarmabhiḥ | sa eva tu tathā bhuṃkte nityaṃ vihitamātmanaḥ
ਆਪਣੇ ਹੀ ਕਰਮਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਜੀਵ ਤਿਰਛੇ ਜਨਮ ਜਾਂ ਸਥਾਵਰ-ਭਾਵ ਤੱਕ ਵੀ ਚਲਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ; ਅਤੇ ਉਹੀ ਜੀਵ ਨਿੱਤ ਆਪਣੇ ਲਈ ਨਿਯਤ ਕੀਤੇ ਫਲ ਨੂੰ ਯਥਾਵਿਧ ਭੋਗਦਾ ਹੈ।
Unspecified (context not provided; likely within the Pulastya–Bhīṣma dialogue framework of the Padma Purāṇa)
Primary Rasa: karuna
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
Sandhi Resolution Notes: जंतुः → जन्तुः; भुंक्ते (IAST bhuṃkte) = भुङ्क्ते; विहितम् आत्मनः → विहितमात्मनः (sandhi).
FAQs
It states that one’s own actions can lead to lower forms of birth (animal or immobile), and that the same individual must experience the results that those actions bring.
Tiryak refers broadly to non-human animal births, while sthāvara refers to immobile life forms such as plants (and other stationary beings) in traditional Indian cosmology.
Personal responsibility: actions shape future conditions of life, and their consequences are inescapably experienced by the doer.