Shloka 115
Marks of the Debt-Bound/Enemy Son, Filial Dharma, Detachment, and the Durvāsā–Dharma Episode
येन कायेन कुर्वंति तेन दुःखं सहन्ति ते । परत्र तेन भुंजंति अनेनापि तथैव च
yena kāyena kurvaṃti tena duḥkhaṃ sahanti te | paratra tena bhuṃjaṃti anenāpi tathaiva ca
ఏ శరీరంతో వారు కర్మలు చేస్తారో, అదే శరీరంతో వారు దుఃఖాన్ని సహిస్తారు. పరలోకంలోనూ అదే సాధనంతో ఫలాన్ని అనుభవిస్తారు; ఇహలోకంలోనూ అలాగే.
Unspecified (narratorial/teaching voice; likely within a Pulastya–Bhīṣma instruction context, but not explicit from the single verse).
Concept: Karmaphala is experienced through the same embodied instrument by which actions are performed; embodiment is morally consequential across this life and the next.
Application: Treat the body as a sacred trust: restrain harmful impulses, choose sattvic habits, and use speech/hands/mind for seva; remember that shortcuts and cruelty rebound through one’s own health, peace, and future circumstances.
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: karuna
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A symbolic courtroom of Dharma: a human figure stands between two mirrored silhouettes of their own body—one luminous with virtuous deeds, one shadowed by harmful acts—showing that the same embodied self receives both pain and reward. In the background, a subtle split reveals this world and the next, connected by a single thread of karma running through the body like a golden cord.","primary_figures":["Dharma (as a radiant judge figure)","A human soul (jīva) with mirrored bodily forms","Chitragupta-like scribe (optional symbolic)"],"setting":"Mythic dharma-sabha with a threshold between earthly landscape and a faint otherworldly realm; scales of justice and a lotus pedestal motif to hint at Padma Purana’s tone.","lighting_mood":"divine radiance","color_palette":["sapphire blue","smoky indigo","gold leaf","lotus pink","ivory white"],"tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore painting style: Dharma seated on a lotus throne with gold leaf halo, holding a staff and scripture; before him a single human figure reflected as two bodies (bright and shadowed) connected by a gold karmic thread; ornate arch, rich reds and greens, gem-studded ornaments, traditional South Indian iconography, embossed gold detailing.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari miniature style: a serene dharma-court in a palace pavilion; delicate linework shows the same person in two adjacent vignettes—performing an act and later receiving its consequence—cool blues and soft pinks, refined faces, lyrical clouds bridging this world and the next.","kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: bold black outlines, Dharma with large expressive eyes and radiant aura; the human body shown as the instrument of action and experience, split-panel composition of earthly and otherworldly scenes; natural pigments with dominant reds, yellows, greens, and deep blue background.","pichwai_prompt":"Pichwai cloth painting style: central lotus medallion with a human figure encircled by a karmic garland; border of lotus vines and sacred symbols; deep blues and gold; subtle Vaishnava cues like shankha-chakra motifs indicating Īśvara’s moral order, intricate floral borders and symmetrical composition."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"meditative","suggested_raga":"Bhairavi","pace":"slow-meditative","voice_tone":"authoritative","sound_elements":["soft temple bells","low conch drone","silence between lines","distant flowing water"]}
Sandhi Resolution Notes: अनेन+अपि → अनेनापि; तथा+एव → तथैव
FAQs
It teaches moral causality (karma): the very instrument (one’s embodied existence) used to perform harmful acts becomes the means through which their painful results are experienced, both here and after death.
No. It explicitly states consequences are experienced “paratra” (in the next world) and “anena api” (even here/in this world) as well.
Since actions rebound upon the doer, it encourages restraint from harmful deeds and promotes responsible conduct, recognizing that suffering and reward follow one’s own choices.