CH 6, Verses 37, 38 & 39

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Chapter 6

Verse 37

Arjuna uvaacha:

 

Ayatih shraddhay'opeto yogaach chalita-maanasah /

apraapya yoga-sa.nsiddhi.n kaa.n gati.n krishhna

gachchhati //

 

Though possessed of faith, with the mind wandering

away from Yoga, lacking in self-control, what end, O

Krishna, does he meet having failed to attain

perfection in Yoga.

 

Verse 38

 

Kachchin n'obhaya-vibhrashhtash chhinn'aabhram iva

nashyati /

apratishhtho mahaa-baaho vimuudho brahmanah pathi //

 

 

Does he not, fallen from both, perish without support,

like a scattered cloud, deluded in the path of

Brahman?

 

Verse 39

 

Etan me sa.nshayam krishhna chhettum arhasy

asheshhatah /

tvad-anyah sa.nshayasy'aasya chhettaa na hy upapadyate

//

 

 

This doubt of mine, O Krishna, You ought to dispel

completely; for it is not possible for any but You to

dispel this doubt.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 63

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

Here Arjuna gets a doubt. If a Yogi striving after

perfection dies before realizing his aim, what would

he get? He has renounced all earthly pleasures in

order to achieve self-realization. But before

attaining the aim if he dies will all his efforts go

in vain? Will he be ruined thereby? This fear grips

the mind of Arjuna. He asks the Lord:

 

"Though possessed of faith, with the mind wandering

away from Yoga, lacking in self-control, what end, O

Krishna, does he meet having failed to attain

perfection in Yoga?” (Chapter 6, Verse 37).

 

"Does he not, fallen from both, perish without

support, like a scattered cloud, deluded in the path

of Brahman?" (Chapter 6, Verse 38).

 

"This doubt of mine, O Krishna, You ought to dispel

completely; for it is not possible for any but You to

dispel this doubt" (Chapter 6, Verse 39).

 

Some start practicing Yoga with full faith and

enthusiasm. But after a while, they get tired of it

and their enthusiasm slowly wanes. It may be due to

laziness or an attack of some incurable disease or

some other calamity. With these inadequate efforts to

his credit, he breathes his last. What is the state of

such a Yogi? With full vigor and enthusiasm he was

marching towards the highest attainment of the

realization of the Self. Unfortunately some problems

cropped up in the middle and he died before reaching

the goal. He was a person who had given up all worldly

pursuits in order to realize the Self. So he did not

enjoy worldly pleasure also to his heart's content.

Thus, he had lost the spiritual goal as also success

in the material world. Will the partial achievement in

Yoga that he has made in this life through steady

efforts be lost forever?

 

Clouds gather in the sky. If they pour down on the

earth in the form of rains, it would do immense good

to the world by quenching the thirst of all creatures

and feeding the growth of the vegetation as well. But

if a cloud is neither in the sky, nor down on the

earth in the form of a shower, it gets destroyed just

in the middle as a result of rarefaction. Its

existence as a cloud is purposeless. In the same way a

person who has fallen from Yoga may get deprived of

both the attainments of the Supreme Self and also the

happiness associated with the worldly pleasures that

he abandoned in order to become a Yogi. So, what is

the fate or condition of such a fallen Yogi?

 

>From the standpoint of all Yogis, the question put by

Arjuna to Sri Krishna is very relevant. These Yogis

renounced the Vedic rites and rituals pertaining to

the householder's life on one side and they have not

attained to Self-realization on the other. Having

given up Vedic rites and rituals, Swarga (heaven) is

deprived to them and having failed in Yoga, they are

deprived of Self-realization (Moksha.) What is their

fate?

 

In all humility and deep faith Arjuna reveals to the

Lord that He alone can dispel this doubt and nobody

else is competent to do it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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