Shloka 85
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
इच्छाद्वेष भवैर्दु:खै: प्रकर्षो यत्र जायते । तत्र या नृपते वृत्तिस्तत् प्रयोजनमिष्यते
icchādveṣa-bhavaiḥ duḥkhaiḥ prakarṣo yatra jāyate | tatra yā nṛpate vṛttis tat prayojanam iṣyate, nareśvara ||
毗湿摩言：大王啊，凡由欲(ichchā)或憎(dveṣa)所生诸苦之中，若有一类痛苦占据上风而尤为显著，则当时跃居前列的心之趋向（vṛtti），便被视为人的“所为之旨”(prayojana)，人中王啊。
भीष्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma explains that what we call a person’s ‘purpose’ is often the dominant impulse that arises when desire or aversion generates suffering; the strongest pain-condition shapes the mind’s prevailing tendency (vṛtti), and that tendency functions as the operative aim (prayojana).
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs the king on dharma and inner discipline. Here he analyzes how desire and hatred produce suffering and how, in response, a particular disposition becomes dominant—clarifying the psychological basis of human aims and conduct.