6.38 Like a scattered cloud Arjuna speaks
कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति
अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि
kachchin nobhaya-vibhraṣhṭaśh chhinnābhram iva naśhyati
apratiṣhṭho mahā-bāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi
Fallen from both, do they not perish like a scattered cloud — with no footing anywhere, mighty-armed one?
Explanation
Like a scattered cloud, with no footing anywhere.
Fallen from both — the worldly life given up and the yoga not attained — do they not simply perish?
The fear is specific and it is not abstract. Having renounced the ordinary rewards and not reached the extraordinary one, such a person would have nothing at all.
Word by word
- kachchit
- whether
- na
- not
- ubhaya
- both
- vibhraṣhṭaḥ
- deviated from
- chhinna
- broken
- abhram
- cloud
- iva
- like
- naśhyati
- perishes
- apratiṣhṭhaḥ
- without any support
- mahā-bāho
- mighty-armed Krishna
- vimūḍhaḥ
- bewildered
- brahmaṇaḥ
- of God-realization
- pathi
- one on the path
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