6.37 What about the one who fails? Arjuna speaks
अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः
अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति
ayatiḥ śhraddhayopeto yogāch chalita-mānasaḥ
aprāpya yoga-sansiddhiṁ kāṅ gatiṁ kṛiṣhṇa gachchhati
One who has faith but is slack, whose mind wanders from yoga, and who fails to reach its perfection — where does such a person go, Krishna?
Explanation
Arjuna asks the question nobody asks.
What about the one who has faith but is slack, whose mind wanders, and who fails — where do they go?
Every teaching describes its success. Arjuna asks about the person who tried and did not get there, which is most people, and the Gita spends eight verses answering.
Word by word
- arjunaḥ uvācha
- Arjun said
- ayatiḥ
- lax
- śhraddhayā
- with faith
- upetaḥ
- possessed
- yogāt
- from Yog
- chalita-mānasaḥ
- whose mind becomes deviated
- aprāpya
- failing to attain
- yoga-sansiddhim
- the highest perfection in yog
- kām
- which
- gatim
- destination
- kṛiṣhṇa
- Shree Krishna
- gachchhati
- goes
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