Shloka 8
Abhaya-Itihāsa: Karma, Indriyas, and the Non-sensory Brahman
Brāhmaṇī–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda
कर्मणा मनसा वाचा शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम् | जन्मादिमूर्ति भेदान्तं कर्म भूतेषु वर्तते
karmaṇā manasā vācā śubhaṃ vā yadi vāśubham | janmādi-mūrti-bhedāntaṃ karma bhūteṣu vartate ||
风神（Vāyu）说道：无论是善是恶——由身行、意念或言语所作——业都在众生之中运行；自出生起，贯穿一切受身形态的变迁，直至诸形态的最终分判与终结。
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Karma is generated and bears fruit through all three channels—action, thought, and speech—and it governs the moral and existential trajectory of beings from birth through the changing conditions of embodiment. Hence, ethical discipline must include intention and speech, not only outward deeds.
Vāyudeva is instructing the listener about the pervasive operation of karma in living beings, emphasizing that auspicious and inauspicious results arise from what one does, thinks, and says, and that these karmic forces shape embodied life from birth onward.