Bhagavad Gita 6.37अर्जुन उवाच अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः।अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति ॥
arjuna uvācha ayatiḥ śhraddhayopeto yogāch
chalita-mānasaḥ aprāpya yoga-sansiddhiṁ kāṅ gatiṁ kṛiṣhṇa gachchhati
Sanskrit recitation
When the mind will not stay · 6.33–6.47 · Teaching
Translation
Arjuna said, "He who is unable to control himself, even though he has faith, and whose mind wanders away from Yoga, what end does he meet, having failed to attain perfection in Yoga, O Krishna?"
Hindi translation
अर्जुन बोले - हे कृष्ण ! जिसकी साधनमें श्रद्धा है, पर जिसका प्रयत्न शिथिल है, वह अन्तसमयमें अगर योगसे विचलितमना हो जाय, तो वह योगसिद्धिको प्राप्त न करके किस गतिको चला जाता है?
Meaning
He has faith in the efficacy of Yoga but he is not able to control the senses and the mind. He has no concentration of mind. His mind wanders away when the last breath departs from his body and he loses the memory also. Having failed to achieve perfection in Yoga, i.e., Selfrealisation or the knowledge of the Self, what path will he tread, and what end will such a man,meet
After Swami Sivananda
When the mind will not stay· 6.33–6.47→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 6.33Arjuna said, "O Krishna, I do not see how this Yoga of equanimity, which you have taught…
- 6.34The mind is indeed restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding, O Krishna; I consider it…
- 6.35The Blessed Lord said, "Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to…
- 6.36I think Yoga is hard to be attained by one with an uncontrolled self, but the…
6.37Arjuna said, "He who is unable to control himself, even though he has faith, and whose…
- 6.38Fallen from both, does he not perish like a rent cloud, supportless, O mighty-armed one,…
- 6.39O Krishna, please completely dispel this doubt of mine, for it is not possible for anyone…
- 6.40The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, neither in this world nor in the next will there be…
- 6.41Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for everlasting…
- 6.42Or he is born in a family of even the wisest of yogis; verily, such a birth is very…
- 6.43Then he comes into contact with the knowledge acquired in his former body and strives even…
- 6.44By that same former practice, he is borne on in spite of himself. Even he who merely…
- 6.45But the Yogi who strives assiduously, purified of sins and perfected gradually over many…
- 6.46The yogi is thought to be superior to the ascetics, even superior to those who have…
- 6.47And among all the Yogis, he who, full of faith and with his inner self merged in Me,…
Word-by-word→
- kām
- which
- gatim
- destination
- yogāt
- from Yog
- aprāpya
- failing to attain
- ayatiḥ
- lax
- upetaḥ
- possessed
- gachchhati
- goes
- śhraddhayā
- with faith
- kṛiṣhṇa
- Shree Krishna
- yoga-sansiddhim
- the highest perfection in yog
- arjunaḥ uvācha
- Arjun said
- chalita-mānasaḥ
- whose mind becomes deviated
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