Karma, acting like a clockwork that, while running down, always winds itself up, binds the atmans (selves) of beings to the world and compels them to go through an endless series of births and deaths.

• 业报，就像时钟般地起作用，停下来的时候，通常是它自己结束的时候，把生命的灵魂（自我）束缚在世上，迫使它们经历一系列无休止的出生与死亡。