9.3 Those without faith in it Krishna speaks
अश्रद्दधानाः पुरुषा धर्मस्यास्य परन्तप
अप्राप्य मां निवर्तन्ते मृत्युसंसारवर्त्मनि
aśhraddadhānāḥ puruṣhā dharmasyāsya parantapa
aprāpya māṁ nivartante mṛityu-samsāra-vartmani
Those without faith in this way, Arjuna, do not reach me. They return again to the round of death.
Explanation
And the one hard sentence, placed early.
Those without faith in this way do not reach him; they return to the round of death.
It sits oddly against everything that follows, which widens the door repeatedly — to those who want something, to other gods' worshippers, to the badly behaved. The only exclusion the chapter names is a lack of faith.
Word by word
- aśhraddadhānāḥ
- people without faith
- puruṣhāḥ
- (such) persons
- dharmasya
- of dharma
- asya
- this
- parantapa
- Arjun, conqueror the enemies
- aprāpya
- without attaining
- mām
- me
- nivartante
- come back
- mṛityu
- death
- samsāra
- material existence
- vartmani
- in the path
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