Shloka 100
नारद–शुक संवादः
Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga
जन्ममृत्यू च राजेन्द्र प्राकृतं तदचिन्तयत् । व्यक्ताव्यक्तस्थ कर्मेदमिति नित्यं नराधिप
janmamṛtyū ca rājendra prākṛtaṃ tad acintayat | vyaktāvyaktastha karmedam iti nityaṃ narādhipa ||
ビーシュマは言った。「王の中の最上よ、生と死について思い悩むな。それらは自然の秩序に属する。知るがよい、この行為は顕れたもの（顕）と顕れざるもの（不顕）の相関のうちに置かれている。人の支配者よ、この理解を常に堅く保て。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma urges the king to refrain from excessive grief or rumination over birth and death, treating them as part of nature (prākṛta). Ethical steadiness comes from seeing one’s duty/action (karma) in the wider metaphysical frame of the manifest (vyakta) and unmanifest (avyakta), cultivating detachment while continuing rightful action.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs the grieving king (Yudhiṣṭhira) after the war. Here he consoles and philosophically reorients him: mortality is natural, and the king should maintain a constant understanding that action operates within the cosmic order spanning the seen and unseen.