Shloka 10
जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction
कर्म तत् कुरुते तर्षादहंकारपरिग्रहात् । कार्यकारणसंयोगे स हेतुरुपपादित:,जीव अहंकारके अधीन होकर तृष्णाके कारण कर्म करता है और वह कर्म आगामी कार्य-कारण-संयोगमें हेतु बन जाता है
karma tat kurute tarṣād ahaṅkāra-parigrahāt | kārya-kāraṇa-saṃyoge sa hetur upapāditaḥ ||
毗湿摩说：众生为渴爱所驱，在我执（ahaṃkāra）的支配下造作诸业。而此业在因果相续之链中，又被确立为后续之因——再度系缚作者于未来的果报之中。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Actions arise from craving and ego-identification, and those actions themselves become causes that generate further effects—thus sustaining the cycle of karmic causality and bondage.
In Bhishma’s instruction during the Shanti Parva, he explains to the listener how the jīva, dominated by ahaṅkāra and desire, acts—and how such action becomes a causal link in the ongoing chain of future consequences.