🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 6.39

Chapter 6 · ध्यानयोग · Dhyāna-Yoga · "The Yoga of Meditation" · Verse 39 of 47

एतन्मे संशयं कृष्ण छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः।

त्वदन्यः संशयस्यास्य छेत्ता न ह्युपपद्यते।।6.39।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 6.39 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
6.39 My Lord! Thou art worthy to solve this doubt once and for all; save Thyself there is no one competent to do so.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
6.39 This doubt of mine, O Krishna, do Thou dispel completely; because it is not possible for any but Thee to dispel this doubt.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
6.39 O krsna, arhasi, You should; asesatah, totally; chettum, eradicate, remove; etat, this; samsayam, doubt; me, of mine. Hi, for; na tvad anyah, none other than You, be he a sage or a god; upapadyate, can be; chetta, the despeller, the destroyer; asya, of this; samsayasya, doubt. Therefore you Yourself should dispel (the doubt). This is the meaning.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
6.37 - 6.39 Arjuna said What way does he go, who has embarked on Yoga endowed with faith, but who by inadeacy of exertion in practice, does not gain success in Yoga and has his mind wandering from Yoga? Does he not perish like a small piece of cloud torn from a large mass of cloud - perish without reaching another large mass of cloud? Now does he not fall away from both (sides)? He has no support and is confused on the path leading to the Brahman. He is without any support in the sense that Karma or rituals which constitutes the means of heaven etc., does not give support for a person who is devoid of attachment to fruits; for Karma is the means for generating its own fruits. He is also confused in the path leading to the Brahman on which he has just begun to traverse; He has lost his way. Does he then get lost by falling down from both sides, these being attainment of heaven on the one hand and liberation on the other. Does he not thus perish? You should remove this doubt altogether from my mind; for there is no other remover of this doubt than You, who always perceive directly all matters simultaneously.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
6.39. Please dispel this doubt of mine completely. But for Yourself, O Krsna, no eradicator of this doubt is possible.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।6.39।। हे कृष्ण! मेरे इस सन्देहका सर्वथा छेदन करनेके लिये आप ही योग्य हैं; क्योंकि इस संशयका छेदन करनेवाला आपके सिवाय दूसरा कोई हो नहीं सकता।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
6.39 एतत् this? मे my? संशयम् doubt? कृष्ण O Krishna? छेत्तुम् to dispel? अर्हसि oughtest? अशेषतः completely? त्वत् than Thou? अन्यः another? संशयस्य of doubt? अस्य of this? छेत्ता dispeller? न not? हि verily? उपपद्यते is fit.Commentary There can be no better teacher than Thee for Thou art the omniscient Lord. Thou alone canst dispel this doubt. A Rishi (seer)? a Deva (god)? or a Muni (sage) will not be able to destroy this doubt.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
6.39 O krsna, arhasi, You should; asesatah, totally; chettum, eradicate, remove; etat, this; samsayam, doubt; me, of mine. Hi, for; na tvad anyah, none other than You, be he a sage or a god; upapadyate, can be; chetta, the despeller, the destroyer; asya, of this; samsayasya, doubt. Therefore you Yourself should dispel (the doubt). This is the meaning.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
6.37 - 6.39 Arjuna said What way does he go, who has embarked on Yoga endowed with faith, but who by inadeacy of exertion in practice, does not gain success in Yoga and has his mind wandering from Yoga? Does he not perish like a small piece of cloud torn from a large mass of cloud - perish without reaching another large mass of cloud? Now does he not fall away from both (sides)? He has no support and is confused on the path leading to the Brahman. He is without any support in the sense that Karma or rituals which constitutes the means of heaven etc., does not give support for a person who is devoid of attachment to fruits; for Karma is the means for generating its own fruits. He is also confused in the path leading to the Brahman on which he has just begun to traverse; He has lost his way. Does he then get lost by falling down from both sides, these being attainment of heaven on the one hand and liberation on the other. Does he not thus perish? You should remove this doubt altogether from my mind; for there is no other remover of this doubt than You, who always perceive directly all matters simultaneously.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
6.37-39 Ayatah etc. upto na hyupapadyate. Even if his mind has moved away from the Yoga, he had reached, the faith in [his] mind is not lost. for, a person - even if he has achieved the Yoga - makes all [achievements] useless, if his faith is completely lost. That has been said :- 'Even after attaining the perfect knowledge, if it gets vitiated due to the caprices of mind, that very moment it perishes soon, just as a heap of cotton does due to fire'. If a complete success in the Yoga has not been achieved, then having come out of this [material] world, and having not yet got himself absorbed in the Brahman, would he get lost ? Or, because he has not yet got established in the Brahman, does he permanently get destroyed as the other world (heaven) is [also] ruined for him ? This is the estion. On this [estion], the conclusion -
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।6.39।। इस प्रकरण के अन्तिम श्लोक में अर्जुन स्पष्ट कहता है कि हे कृष्ण आप मेरे इस संशय को दूर कीजिए।केवल भगवान् कृष्ण ही अर्जुन के इस संशय का निराकरण करके उसके मन के विक्षेपों को शान्त कर सकते थे। इस प्रश्न से यह स्पष्ट हो जाता है कि उसकी पूर्व की शंका पूर्णत निवृत्त हो चुकी थी। उसकी पूर्व शंका समत्वयोग की अशक्यता के सम्बन्ध में थी जिसका मुख्य कारण था मन का चंचल स्वभाव।जो कोई भी जिज्ञासु साधक सम्पूर्ण हृदय से साधना करता है उसके मन में एक शंका के निवृत्त होने पर अन्य शंकाएं और प्रश्न उठते रहते हैं। संशयनिवृत्ति का उपाय है मनन। सत्संगत से भी विचार प्राप्त होकर संशय दूर हो जाते हैं।प्रत्येक साधक की साधना एवं भावना के आधार पर उसे देहत्याग के पश्चात् श्रेष्ठ जीवन का आश्वासन भगवान् देते हैं।अगले पाँच श्लोकों में भगवान् उन योगियों की गति को बताते हैं जिनकी साधना मृत्यु के कारण अपूर्ण रह जाती है अथवा मन की बहिर्मुखी प्रवृत्ति के कारण वे योग से पतित हो जाते हैं।

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।6.39।। व्याख्या--एतन्मे संशयं कृष्ण छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः परमात्मप्राप्तिका उद्देश्य होनेसे साधक पापकर्मोंसे तो सर्वथा रहित हो गया, इसलिये वह नरकोंमें तो जा ही नहीं सकता और स्वर्गका ध्येय न रहनेसे स्वर्गमें भी जा नहीं सकता। मनुष्ययोनिमें आनेका उसका उद्देश्य नहीं है, इसलिये वह उसमें भी नहीं आ सकता और परमात्मप्राप्तिके साधनसे भी विचलित हो गया। ऐसा साधक क्या छिन्न-भिन्न बादलकी तरह नष्ट तो नहीं हो जाता? यह मेरा संशय है। 'त्वदन्यः संशयस्यास्य छेत्ता न ह्युपपद्यते' इस संशयका सर्वथा छेदन करनेवाला अन्य कोई हो नहीं सकता। इसका तात्पर्य है कि शास्त्रकी कोई गुत्थी हो, शास्त्रका कोई गहन विषय हो, कोई ऐसा कठिन पंक्ति हो, जिसका अर्थ न लगता हो, तो उसको शास्त्रोंका ज्ञाता कोई विद्वान् भी समझा सकता है। परन्तु योगभ्रष्टकी क्या गति होती है? इसका उत्तर वह नहीं दे सकता। हाँ, योगी कुछ हदतक इसको जान सकता है, पर वह सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंकी गति-आगतिको अर्थात् जाने और आनेको नहीं जान सकता क्योंकि वह 'युञ्जान योगी' है अर्थात् अभ्यास करके योगी बना है। अतः वह वहींतक जान सकता है, जहाँतक उसकी जाननेकी हद है। परन्तु आप तो 'युक्त योगी' हैं अर्थात् आप बिना अभ्यास, परिश्रमके सर्वत्र सब कुछ जाननेवाले हैं। आपके समान जानकार कोई हो सकता ही नहीं। आप साक्षात् भगवान् हैं और सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंकी गति-आगतिको जाननेवाले हैं (टिप्पणी प0 375)। अतः इस योगभ्रष्टके गतिविषयक प्रश्नका उत्तर आप ही दे सकते हैं। आप ही मेरे इस संशयको दूर कर सकते हैं। सम्बन्ध--अड़तीसवें श्लोकमें अर्जुनने शङ्का की थी कि संसारसे और साधनसे च्युत हुए साधकका कहीं पतन तो नहीं हो जाता? उसका समाधान करनेके लिये भगवान् आगेका श्लोक कहते हैं।

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