Shloka 41
Mokṣa-dharma Yoga-Upadeśa: Equanimity, Sense-Restraint, and Vision of the Ātman (आत्मदर्शन-योगोपदेशः)
वर्धते वर्धमानस्य वर्धते च कथं बलम् । निरोधानां निर्गमनं मलानां च पृथक् पृथक्
vardhate vardhamānasya vardhate ca kathaṃ balam | nirodhānāṃ nirgamaṇaṃ malānāṃ ca pṛthak pṛthak ||
婆罗门问道：“身体增长之时，它的力量又如何随之增长？而体内诸秽浊之物四面受阻，各各又凭何得其别别之出口？”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames embodied life as governed by an intelligible order: growth, strength, and the regulated expulsion of wastes are not random but invite reflection on the sustaining principles behind physiology—often leading, in the wider Mahābhārata’s didactic mode, to discussions of nature (prakṛti), causality, and the unseen governance of life.
In a didactic exchange, the Brahmin poses probing questions about how bodies develop and function—specifically how strength increases with growth and how different wastes exit the body despite internal confinement—setting up an explanatory response about the workings of embodied existence.