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यथा मधुकरो भ्रमरः अर्धमासोपार्जितम् अर्धमासं संचितं मधु अर्धमासं पिबति, एवमसावपि भ्रमरः भ्रमणशीलत्वात्संसारी तद्विषयं मधु अर्धमाससंचितमर्धमासं पिबति; पूर्वजन्मसंचितं कर्म अन्यस्मिन् जन्मनि भुङ्क्ते इति यावत् ।भवेदप्यैहिकफलात्कर्मणः फलसिद्धिः, कर्मानन्तरभावित्वात्; कथं पुनरामुष्मिकफलात्कर्मणः फलसिद्धिः स्यात्, कर्मणो वि
In plain words
Just as a honey-bee consumes the nectar it has gathered over a fortnight during the following fortnight, so too this wandering soul, caught in worldly existence, consumes the karmic nectar accumulated from past times. In other words, it reaps in a subsequent birth the actions accumulated in a previous one. While the fruition of actions bearing results in this very life is understandable because the result immediately follows the deed, how can there be the accomplishment of fruit from actions whose results belong to the hereafter, given that karma...
Close to the Sanskrit
Just as the honey-maker bee drinks honey gathered for half a month, accumulated for half a month, thus this bee also, being of wandering nature, the transmigrator, drinks that honey accumulated for half a month for half a month; karma accumulated in past birth he enjoys in another birth, that is to say. There might be accomplishment of fruit from action yielding results in this life, due to occurring subsequent to action; how again could there be accomplishment of fruit from action whose fruit is in the other world, of action...