Shloka 29
Jvarotpatti — The Origin and Distribution of Jvara
Fever
अथवा सशरीरास्ते गुणा: सर्वे शरीरिणाम् । संश्रितास्तद् वियोगे हि सशरीरा न सन्ति ते
athavā saśarīrās te guṇāḥ sarve śarīriṇām | saṃśritās tad-viyoge hi saśarīrā na santi te ||
又说：这一切性质与机能，连同身体，都依赖于具身者而立。因为当生我离去时，身体与那些系缚于身的原理便不复如前。此教旨强调：身心之器具是依缘而有、终归败坏；故当松解对身体及其作用的认同，了知它们皆依内住之我而存。
असित उवाच
Educational Q&A
The body and its operative faculties (guṇas in the sense of embodied constituents) are dependent on the presence of the indwelling self; when the self departs, the body and those functions no longer persist. Therefore one should not take the psycho-physical complex as the ultimate self.
Asita is explaining a metaphysical point within the Shānti Parva’s instruction: he argues that the constituents of embodied existence remain only so long as the living self is connected with the body; separation (death) reveals their contingent nature.