Shloka 45
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
स एवं फलमाप्रोति त्रिषु लोकेषु मुर्तिमान् । जो इस प्रकार शुभाशुभ फल देनेवाला कर्म करता है, वही तीनों लोकोंमें शरीर धारण करके इन उपर्युक्त फलोंको पाता है || ४४ $ ।।
sa eva phalam āpnoti triṣu lokeṣu mūrtimān | prakṛtiḥ kurute karma śubhāśubhaphalātmakam | prakṛtiś ca tad aśnāti triṣu lokeṣu kāmagā |
婆悉吒说道：“在三界之中，人们只见具身者得其果报。然而真实而言，行作招感吉凶之业者乃是普拉克里蒂（物质自然）；而同一普拉克里蒂——随意游行于三界——亦复亲自受用、吞纳其业果。自性之灵（补卢沙），由于无明，误认自己为作者与受者。”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse distinguishes apparent and ultimate agency: although the embodied individual seems to reap results, in philosophical truth actions and their enjoyments belong to Prakṛti; the puruṣa identifies with doership and enjoyership due to ignorance.
In Śānti Parva’s instructional discourse, Vasiṣṭha explains a Sāṅkhya-style account of karma and experience, shifting responsibility from an eternal self to Prakṛti’s guṇa-driven activity, while noting that mistaken identification binds the self.