Shloka 41
Mokṣa-dharma Yoga-Upadeśa: Equanimity, Sense-Restraint, and Vision of the Ātman (आत्मदर्शन-योगोपदेशः)
वर्धते वर्धमानस्य वर्धते च कथं बलम् । निरोधानां निर्गमनं मलानां च पृथक् पृथक्,'स्त्री-शरीरमें मांस, मेदा, स्नायु और हडियाँ कैसे होती हैं? देहधारियोंके ये समस्त शरीर कैसे बढ़ते हैं? बढ़ते हुए शरीरका बल कैसे बढ़ता है? जिनका सब ओरसे अवरोध है, उन मलोंका पृथक्-पृथक् नि:सारण कैसे होता है?
vardhate vardhamānasya vardhate ca kathaṃ balam | nirodhānāṃ nirgamaṇaṃ malānāṃ ca pṛthak pṛthak ||
দেহ বৃদ্ধি পালে তাৰ বলো কেনেকৈ একেলগে বৃদ্ধি পায়? আৰু দেহৰ ভিতৰত চাৰিওফালে বাধাপ্ৰাপ্ত মলসমূহ পৃথক পৃথক পথেদি কেনেকৈ বাহিৰলৈ ওলাই যায়?
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames embodied life as governed by an intelligible order: growth, strength, and the regulated expulsion of wastes are not random but invite reflection on the sustaining principles behind physiology—often leading, in the wider Mahābhārata’s didactic mode, to discussions of nature (prakṛti), causality, and the unseen governance of life.
In a didactic exchange, the Brahmin poses probing questions about how bodies develop and function—specifically how strength increases with growth and how different wastes exit the body despite internal confinement—setting up an explanatory response about the workings of embodied existence.