Verse 6.37

अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः ।

अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति ॥

6.37

Transliteration

ayatiḥ śraddhayopeto yogāccalitamānasaḥ |

aprāpya yogasaṃsiddhiṃ kāṃ gatiṃ kṛṣṇa gacchati ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Arjuna said He who is unable to control himself though he has the faith, and whose mind wanders away from Yoga, what end does he, having failed to attain perfection in Yoga, mee,t O Krishna?

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Word by word

one lacking self-control
with faith
endowed
from yoga
whose mind has strayed

not attaining
perfection in yoga
what
end
O Krishna
goes to

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Arjuna asks a question that matters to every sincere seeker. What becomes of the person who has faith (śraddhā) but lacks sufficient effort, whose mind slips away from yoga before reaching its perfection? Such a person is neither a cynic nor a master, but someone in between. Arjuna's question shows that he is now thinking about the path as something he himself might undertake, and fearing that partial success might be worse than never trying at all.