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(1777) Karma is the seed of the sprout in the form of worldly life, and as that is said to be of different varieties, the varieties of the sprout of worldly life result from the variety in the cause.
(1778 If karma is admitted and if it is admitted to be of different varieties on account of variety in its cause, then know, O gentle one, its fruit also to be of different varieties for the transmigratory being.
(1779) Transmigratoriness (is of different varieties) because it is the fruit of karma (of different varieties); as here in the world there is fruit of different varieties of actions which are correspondingly of different varieties.
odification of karma is of different varieties as it is the modification of Matter like the external (modifications of Matter). The diversity of karma, again, is due to the diversity of its cause.
(1781) Or, even if the other-worldly life is admitted as similar to this life here in this (world), even so accept the fruit of karman in the other-worldly life to be similar to that in this-worldly life.
(1782) What does this amount to ? Men perform here different kinds of actions. If they are the enjoyers of their fruits, then it is but proper that there should be the same position in the other world too.
(1783) If it be said that action yields fruits in this world and not in the other world, then there will be no similarity whatsoever. There will be the contingency of attaining the fruit of what has not been performed or loss of what has been done, or the non-existence of karman.
(1784) And in the absence of karman, whence could there be another life, or similarity in its absence? And if another life be (looked upon as being) without a cause, then destruction also would be such.
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