Shloka 109
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
सुखासुखे जरामृत्यू लाभालाभौ प्रियाप्रिये । इति चैकोनविंशो<यं द्वन्द्रयोग इति स्मृत:
sukhāsukhe jarāmṛtyū lābhālābhau priyāpriye | iti caikonaviṁśo ’yaṁ dvandrayoga iti smṛtaḥ ||
ਸੁੱਖ‑ਦੁੱਖ, ਬੁਢਾਪਾ‑ਮੌਤ, ਲਾਭ‑ਹਾਨੀ ਅਤੇ ਪ੍ਰਿਯ‑ਅਪ੍ਰਿਯ—ਇਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਵੰਦਾਂ ਵੱਲ ਸਮਭਾਵ ਰੱਖਣ ਦਾ ਜੋ ਯੋਗ ਹੈ, ਉਹੀ ਉੱਨੀਵਾਂ ਗੁਣ ਮੰਨਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ।
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.