Shloka 16
Yoga-kṛtya (योककृत्य) — Vyāsa on Sense-Restraint, Obstacles, and Brahman-Realization
तेषां ये यानि कर्माणि प्राक्सृष्ट्यां प्रतिपेदिरे । तान्येव प्रतिपाद्यन्ते सृज्यमाना: पुनः पुन:
teṣāṃ ye yāni karmāṇi prāk-sṛṣṭyāṃ pratipedire | tāny eva pratipādyante sṛjyamānāḥ punaḥ punaḥ ||
Sinabi ni Vyāsa: Anumang mga gawa ang ginawa ng mga nilalang sa naunang paglikha, yaon ding mga huwaran ang muling pinaiiral, paulit-ulit, kapag sila’y nililikha muli. Kaya sa mga siklong sunod-sunod ng paglikha, ang mga nilalang ay karaniwang kumikilos ayon sa mga bakas na naiwan ng kanilang dating mga gawa.
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Actions leave enduring impressions that carry across cycles of creation; when beings are born again, they tend to repeat earlier behavioral patterns under the influence of prior karma and residual dispositions.
In a doctrinal explanation within Śānti Parva, Vyāsa describes how, in successive creations, beings re-manifest with tendencies shaped by what they did in earlier cycles, leading them to re-enact similar kinds of actions repeatedly.