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 ||
Bhīṣma disse: «Ó melhor dos reis, não te detenhas a ruminar sobre nascimento e morte, pois pertencem à ordem natural. Sabe que esta ação se situa no entrelaçamento do manifesto e do imanifesto; conserva firmemente esse entendimento, ó governante dos homens.»
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.