Shloka 2
कālacakra-वर्णनम् तथा āśrama-धarma-निरूपणम्
The Wheel of Time and the Norms of the Āśramas
जराशोकसमादविहष्ट व्याधिव्यसनसम्भवम् | देशकालविचारीदं श्रमव्यायामनि:स्वनम्
jarāśokasamādavihṛṣṭaṁ vyādhivyasanasaṁbhavam | deśakālavicārīdaṁ śramavyāyāmaniḥsvanam
ヴァーユは言った。「この音は苦難と労苦から生じる—病と不運より生まれ、老い、悲嘆、苦悩によっていよいよ強まる。場所と時により姿を変え、疲労と苛烈な努力そのもののざわめきである。」
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how human suffering and limitation—old age, grief, illness, and adversity—manifest outwardly even as something as simple as a sound. Ethically, it encourages discernment and compassion: one should interpret signs of strain in others with understanding, recognizing the conditioned nature of distress (by time, place, and circumstance).
Vāyudeva is explaining the nature and cause of a particular sound/utterance, identifying it as the noise produced by fatigue and strenuous exertion, and tracing it to underlying conditions such as illness, misfortune, old age, and grief, which fluctuate with context (place and time).