Endued with life, O king, individual soul in this world, from the moment of his birth, enjoys and suffers his own (pristine deeds), depending upon virtue (and its reverse).
इहलोके च स प्राणी जन्मप्रभृति पार्थिव। सुकृतं कर्म वै भुक्ते धर्मस्य फलमाश्रितः॥