Shloka 109
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
सुखासुखे जरामृत्यू लाभालाभौ प्रियाप्रिये । इति चैकोनविंशो<यं द्वन्द्रयोग इति स्मृत:,सुख और दुःख, जरा और मृत्यु, लाभ और हानि तथा प्रिय और अप्रिय इत्यादि द्न्द्दोंका जो योग है, यह उन्नीसवाँ गुण माना गया है
sukhāsukhe jarāmṛtyū lābhālābhau priyāpriye | iti caikonaviṁśo ’yaṁ dvandrayoga iti smṛtaḥ ||
Bhīṣma bersabda: “Ketenangan terhadap pasangan yang berlawanan—suka dan duka, tua dan mati, untung dan rugi, yang dicinta dan yang tidak disenangi—disiplin menghadapi dualiti dengan keteguhan ini diingati sebagai sifat kesembilan belas.”
भीष्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
To cultivate steadiness toward life’s opposites—pleasure/pain, gain/loss, dear/undesired, and even aging/death—so that one’s conduct remains aligned with dharma rather than driven by fluctuating circumstances.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction section, Bhīṣma is advising Yudhiṣṭhira on virtues and disciplines. Here he enumerates a specific quality—‘dvandva-yoga,’ the practice of equanimity toward dualities—and identifies it as the nineteenth in the list being taught.