Shloka 126
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
यथा<55दित्यान्मणेश्षापि वीरुद्धयश्चैव पावक: । जायन्त्येवं समुदयात् कलानामिव जन्तव:
yathādityān maṇeḥ śāpī viruddhayaś caiva pāvakaḥ | jāyanty evaṃ samudayāt kalānām iva jantavaḥ ||
毗湿摩说：正如日光照触苏利耶迦安多宝（sūryakānta）而火显现，正如木与木相摩而火生起；同样，众生之受生，亦由先前所说诸“分”（kalā）之聚合而成。此教诲表明：有身之命由因缘会合而起，非偶然；当所需诸缘具足相合，果必随其正因而现。
भीष्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
That birth and manifestation occur when the necessary causes and conditions assemble—like fire emerging from a sunstone under sunlight or from wood through friction—so embodied existence is the result of a lawful conjunction of constituent factors (kalās).
Bhīṣma is instructing (in Śānti Parva’s didactic setting) by giving two familiar analogies for emergence: fire appears when the right enabling conditions are present; likewise, beings arise when the previously discussed constituent elements combine.