Dvivedi, Manilal Nabhubhai [Comm.]: The Yoga-sūtra of Patanjali: (translation, with introduction, appendix, and notes based upon several authentic commentaries) (Bombay, 1890)

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come powerless for fruition. All karmas do not produce
their results at once, nor does one karma succeed another, but
the mysterious law works in some inscrutable manner, and
such parts of the aggragate as are ripe for fruition, produce
results under proper circumstances. The division of karmas
into sanchita, pr&rabdha, kriyamana, after the Adcaita philoso-
phy, is most important to explain, even approximately, the
operations of this mysterious law of laws.*

XIII. The root being there, their fruition (consists
in) class, life, and experience.

The root means the root in the form of distractions.
If it is there the result of karma is sure to follow.
Their, i.e., of karmas. The result or fruition of karma consists
in one of three things, or all of them, or any two of them, viz~,
class, life, experience. The word class docs not convey the
whole import of the wovdJdti which refers to rank, class, birth,
or what are called orders and genera as well. The meaning,
however, is plain enough. The being placed in one particular
position is the result of karma. So is also the length or
shortness of life ; and so also the pleasantness or otherwise
of the experiences of a life-time. Hence the results of karma
are threefold.

XIV. They have pleasure or j)ain for thier fruit
according as their cause is virtue or vice.

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They, i. e., the three : class, life, and experience. The mean-
ing is plain.

* "Vide my "Monism or Advaitism?"—Section Karma,