yataścaivaṃ kāryakāraṇabhāve sādhite sarvaṃ karmaphalasambandhādi ghaṭate, dūṣite ca vighaṭate, tasmāt karmaphalādīnāṃ bhāvasiddhaye kāryakāraṇatāsiddhau yatno vidhātavyaḥ /
Since when the causal relation is thus proven, everything like the connection between action and its result becomes established, and when [it is] disproven [these] become dispelled, therefore effort should be made to prove the causal relation for establishing the existence of actions and their results.