Shloka 6
शुकस्य योगसिद्धिः (Śuka’s Yogic Attainment and Ascent)
एवमुक्त: स वैदेहं प्रत्युवाचापरोक्षवित् । निवृत्तिर्न तयोरस्ति नानिवृत्ति: कथठ्चन
evam uktaḥ sa vaidehaṁ pratyuvāca aparokṣavit | nivṛttir na tayor asti nānivṛttiḥ kathaṁcana ||
被如此问及，那位具足现证之知的圣者答毗提诃王曰：“衰老与死亡这两者，并无绝对的止息；然而也不能说它们在一切意义上都不可止息。财富与世间权势不能胜过它们；但凭智慧之知，连轮回再生之环亦可终止——既然如此，又何必再言衰老与死亡？”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Worldly means cannot abolish old age and death, but liberating knowledge can end rebirth (saṁsāra); with the end of rebirth, the problem of recurring old age and death is transcended.
Bhishma reports a teaching episode: when the king of Videha questions him, the sage Pañcaśikha—described as a knower of direct realization—answers by distinguishing between ordinary, worldly attempts to avoid aging and death and the deeper spiritual solution of knowledge leading to liberation.