Shloka 40
Mokṣa-dharma Yoga-Upadeśa: Equanimity, Sense-Restraint, and Vision of the Ātman (आत्मदर्शन-योगोपदेशः)
तथा मांसं च मेदश्न स्नाय्वस्थीनि च योषिति । कथमेतानि सर्वाणि शरीराणि शरीरिणाम्,'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?
tathā māṁsaṁ ca medaś ca snāyv-asthīni ca yoṣiti | katham etāni sarvāṇi śarīrāṇi śarīriṇām ||
The Brahmin said: “So too, in a woman’s body there are flesh and fat, sinews and bones. How do all these bodies of embodied beings come to be formed and grow?”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a philosophical inquiry into embodiment: how the material constituents of the body (flesh, fat, sinews, bones) arise and develop in living beings, preparing the ground for reflection on the relation between the physical body and the embodied self.
A Brahmin speaker poses a pointed question about the formation and growth of bodies, using the woman’s body as an example, as part of a broader dialogue that investigates the nature and origin of embodied existence.