Verse 6.42

अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम् ।

एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम् ॥

6.42

Transliteration

athavā yogināmeva kule bhavati dhīmatām |

etaddhi durlabhataraṃ loke janma yadīdṛśam ||

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

Translation

Or he is born in a family of even the wise Yogis; verily a birth like this is very difficult to obtain in this world.

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Word by word

or else
of yogis
indeed
in the family
is born
of the wise

this
indeed
harder to obtain
in the world
birth
which
such as this

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

Explanation

Krishna gives a second possibility. The one who fell from yoga may instead be born directly into a family of wise yogis. Such a birth, he says, is even rarer and harder to obtain. The point is that a home where spiritual practice is lived and understood offers the best possible start for someone resuming the path. The verse ranks the two kinds of birth: prosperity and purity are good, but an environment of wisdom is better still.