18.73 I will do as you say Arjuna speaks
नष्टो मोहः स्मृतिर्लब्धा त्वत्प्रसादान्मयाच्युत
स्थितोऽस्मि गतसन्देहः करिष्ये वचनं तव
naṣhṭo mohaḥ smṛitir labdhā tvat-prasādān mayāchyuta
sthito ‘smi gata-sandehaḥ kariṣhye vachanaṁ tava
My confusion is gone and I have regained my memory, by your grace, unfailing one. I stand firm; my doubts are gone. I will do as you say.
Explanation
My confusion is gone, and I have regained my memory.
naṣṭo mohaḥ smṛtir labdhā. Arjuna's last words, and note the second half: not I have been convinced but I remember.
2.63 said that when memory fails, discernment is lost and a person is lost. He is describing the reverse. I stand firm. I will do as you say.
Going further
Word by word
- arjunaḥ uvācha
- Arjun said
- naṣhṭaḥ
- dispelled
- mohaḥ
- illusion
- smṛitiḥ
- memory
- labdhā
- regained
- tvat-prasādāt
- by your grace
- mayā
- by me
- achyuta
- Shree Krishna, the infallible one
- sthitaḥ
- situated
- asmi
- I am
- gata-sandehaḥ
- free from doubts
- kariṣhye
- I shall act
- vachanam
- instructions
- tava
- your
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Naṣhṭo mohaḥ smṛitir labdhā — my confusion is gone, and I have regained my memory.
Arjuna's last words, and note the verb. Not I have learned but I have remembered. The Gita's own account of what happened over seventeen chapters is that nothing was added; something was recovered.
Then: kariṣhye vachanaṁ tava, I will do as you say. He gets up. The whole of Chapter 1 was a man sitting down.