Shloka 6
Vyaktāvyakta-Viveka and Nivṛtti as Paramā Gati
Manifest–Unmanifest Discrimination and the Supreme Path of Withdrawal
कथं च सर्वभूतेषु समेषु द्विजसत्तम | सम्यग्वृत्ता निवर्तन्ते विपरीता: क्षयोदया:,द्विजश्रेष्ठ) पृथ्वी आदि सम्पूर्ण महाभूत सर्वत्र समान हैं; सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंके शरीर उन्हींसे निर्मित हुए हैं तो भी उनमें क्षय और वृद्धि--ये दोनों विपरीतभाव क्यों होते हैं?
kathaṁ ca sarvabhūteṣu sameṣu dvijasattama | samyagvṛttā nivartante viparītāḥ kṣayodayāḥ ||
Bhīṣma said: “O best of the twice-born, if the great elements—beginning with earth—are everywhere the same, and if the bodies of all beings are fashioned from those very elements, then why do the contrary conditions of decline and increase arise among creatures? By what right order do such opposites come to be and pass away?”
भीष्म उवाच