संयोगा विप्रयोगान्ता जातानां प्राणिनां ध्रुवम्
saṃyogā viprayogāntā jātānāṃ prāṇināṃ dhruvam
जन्मलेल्या प्राण्यांसाठी हे निश्चित आहे की प्रत्येक संयोगाचा शेवट वियोगातच होतो.
व्यास उवाच
All relationships and worldly associations are inherently impermanent; since separation is certain, one should cultivate steadiness, restraint, and non-attachment, meeting gain and loss, union and parting with dharmic composure.
Vyāsa delivers a consoling, philosophical maxim within the Śānti Parva’s instruction: he frames human grief and attachment against the universal law that every meeting of embodied beings must end in parting.