Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.58
कर्माण्यारभते येन पुमानिह विहाय तम् ।
अमुत्रान्येन देहेन जुष्टानि स यदश्नुते ॥ ५८ ॥
karmāṇy ārabhate yena
[karmaany aarabhate yena]
pumān iha vihāya tam
[pumaan iha vihaaya tam]
amutrānyena dehena
[amutraanyena dehena]
juṣṭāni sa yad aśnute
[jushtaani sa yad ashnute]
Word-for-word
karmāṇi
—
fruitive activities
ārabhate
—
begins to perform
yena
—
by which
pumān
—
a living entity
iha
—
in this life
vihāya
—
giving up
tam
—
that
amutra
—
in the next life
anyena
—
another
dehena
—
by a body
juṣṭāni
—
the results
saḥ
—
he
yat
—
that
aśnute
—
enjoys.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
karmāṇy ārabhate yena
karmāṇi
fruitive activities
ārabhate
begins to perform
yena
by which
pumān iha vihāya tam
pumān
a living entity
iha
in this life
vihāya
giving up
tam
that
amutrānyena dehena
amutra
in the next life
anyena
another
dehena
by a body
juṣṭāni sa yad aśnute
juṣṭāni
the results
saḥ
he
yat
that
aśnute
enjoys.
The results of whatever a living entity does in this life are enjoyed in the next life.
Purport
A person generally does not know how one body is linked with another body. How is it possible that one suffers or enjoys the results of activities in this body in yet another body in the next life? This is a question the King wants Nārada Muni to answer. How may one have a human body in this life and not have a human body in the next? Even great philosophers and scientists cannot account for the transferal of karma from one body to another. As we experience, every individual soul has an individual body, and one person’s activities or one body’s activities are not enjoyed or suffered by another body or another person. The question is how the activities of one body are suffered or enjoyed in the next.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Giving up the body by which he performs actions, a person then enjoys the results in a different body on another planet after death.
I have one more doubt concerning the path of karma. Please destroy that doubt. A person gives up the body which he performed acts and then attains results in Svarga or hell in another body in another planet after death. This is explained in the scripture. How is that suitable? In other words, it is not right that he performs actions in one body and enjoys results in another body.
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Personal Guidance
What you do in this life, you enjoy in the next. Karma's accounting is forward; you're producing future-life inputs right now.
Reflection Questions
- What 'product' am I making this season for my next life to enjoy or suffer?
- Where would adjustment now reshape future receipts?
My note
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