Shloka 7
जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction
तत्कारणैहिं संयुक्त कार्यसंग्रहकारकम् । येनैतद् वर्तते चक्रमनादिनिधनं महत्
tatkāraṇaiḥ saṁyuktaḥ kārya-saṅgraha-kārakam | yenaitad vartate cakram anādi-nidhanaṁ mahat ||
毗湿摩说：具足那些因缘要素，有身之众生便积聚并储藏诸业。由业生起潜在的习气与渴爱，由渴爱又复生业。于是，这无始无终的巨大轮回之轮，恒常转动不息。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Actions generate latent tendencies (vāsanās), and those tendencies propel further action; this mutual reinforcement keeps the beginningless, seemingly endless cycle of saṁsāra in motion. Ethical discipline and insight are implied as the means to weaken this causal chain.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation, Bhīṣma explains to the listener the mechanism by which beings become bound: causal conditions lead to accumulation of karma, which in turn produces dispositions that drive repeated action, sustaining the world-cycle.