1240 Verse 1850

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विपाकहेतुः फलदो नातीतोऽभ्युपगम्यते ।
सद्वासितात्तु विज्ञानप्रबन्धात्फलमिष्यते ॥ १८५० ॥

vipākahetuḥ phalado nātīto’bhyupagamyate |
sadvāsitāttu vijñānaprabandhātphalamiṣyate || 1850 ||

What brings about the fruit is the cause of fruition,—not anything ‘past’, in fact, the fruit is held to proceed from the ‘chain’ of cognitions impressed by the entity (when present).—(1850)

Kamalaśīla

Question:—“How does the past act bring about its fruit”?

Answer:—[see verse 1850 above]

‘Impressed’—i.e. rendered capable of producing the fruit, through the long series of ‘causal factors—(1850)

Question “If that is so, then how is it that the Blessed Lord has declared that—‘There is Karma, which decays, is obstructed and becomes modified’?”

Answer:—[see verse 1851 next]