Shloka 126
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
यथा<55दित्यान्मणेश्षापि वीरुद्धयश्चैव पावक: । जायन्त्येवं समुदयात् कलानामिव जन्तव:
yathādityān maṇeḥ śāpī viruddhayaś caiva pāvakaḥ | jāyanty evaṃ samudayāt kalānām iva jantavaḥ ||
जसे सूर्यकिरणांच्या स्पर्शाने सूर्यकान्त-मणीतून अग्नी प्रकट होतो आणि काष्ठाच्या परस्पर घर्षणानेही अग्नी उत्पन्न होतो; तसेच या कलांच्या समुदायाच्या संयोगातून जीव जन्म घेतात॥
भीष्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
That birth and manifestation occur when the necessary causes and conditions assemble—like fire emerging from a sunstone under sunlight or from wood through friction—so embodied existence is the result of a lawful conjunction of constituent factors (kalās).
Bhīṣma is instructing (in Śānti Parva’s didactic setting) by giving two familiar analogies for emergence: fire appears when the right enabling conditions are present; likewise, beings arise when the previously discussed constituent elements combine.