Shloka 30
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
कभी यज्ञ करता और कराता, कभी वेद पढ़ता और पढ़ाता तथा कभी दान करता और प्रतिग्रह लेता है। इसी प्रकार वह दूसरे-दूसरे कार्य भी किया करता है ।।
janma-mṛtyu-vivāde ca tathā viśasane ’pi ca | śubhāśubha-mayaṁ sarvam etad āhuḥ kriyā-patham ||
Sinabi ni Vasiṣṭha: “Minsan ay naghahandog siya at nagpapahandog; minsan ay nagbabasa ng Veda at nagtuturo ng Veda; minsan ay nagbibigay ng kaloob at tumatanggap ng handog. Gayundin, gumagawa siya ng iba’t ibang gawain. Sa ikot ng kapanganakan at kamatayan, sa mga pagtatalo, at maging sa mga gawa ng karahasan—sinasabi ng marurunong na ang lahat ng ito’y kabilang sa landas ng pagkilos (kriyāpatha), kung saan ang mga bunga ay halong mapalad at di-mapalad.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames worldly life as kriyāpatha—the path of action—where experiences and deeds (including birth, death, conflict, and even violence) are bound up with mixed moral consequences (śubha and aśubha). It highlights how action in saṁsāra tends to generate entangling results rather than pure freedom.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing the listener in a reflective, ethical-philosophical mode typical of the Śānti Parva, classifying various human conditions and behaviors—conflict and violence included—as part of the worldly course of karma, characterized by alternating or mixed outcomes.