Shloka 122
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
इसी प्रकार कुमारावस्थासे जवानीको और जवानीसे बुढ़ापेको वह प्राप्त होता है। इस क्रमसे उत्तरोत्तर अवस्थामें पहुँचनेपर पूर्व पूर्व अवस्थाका रूप नहीं देखनेमें आता है ।।
kalānāṁ pṛthagarthānāṁ pratibhedaḥ kṣaṇe kṣaṇe | vartate sarvabhūteṣu saukṣmyāt tu na vibhāvyate ||
毗湿摩开示说：正如人从童年进入青年，又由青年走向老年——一旦抵达后来的阶段，先前阶段的形貌便不复可见——同样地，一切众生之中，为不同目的而各别运作的诸种能力与功能，也在每一刹那都在变异。只是这种变异极其微细，故常人难以觉察。此教诲彰显变迁之不可避免，并告诫人莫执著于固定不变的自我或境况之见。
भीष्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
All beings undergo continuous, moment-by-moment transformation in their faculties and conditions; the change is real but so subtle that it escapes ordinary perception. Therefore one should not cling to a fixed identity or assume permanence in bodily or mental states.
In the Śānti Parva discourse, Bhīṣma instructs the listener in a reflective, philosophical mode, using the familiar progression from childhood to youth to old age to illustrate how change is constant even when it is not immediately visible.