Shloka 30
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 ||
瓦西什塔说道：“有时他行祭并令他人行祭；有时诵读吠陀并教授吠陀；有时布施，有时受纳供养；又如此从事种种别业。在生死轮回之中，在争讼之中，乃至在暴力杀伐之中——智者说这一切皆属‘行动之道’（kriyāpatha），其间诸业之果，吉凶杂糅。”
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.