Chapter 6, Verse 38
कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति। अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि।।6.38।।
kaccinnobhayavibhraṣṭaśchinnābhramiva naśyati. apratiṣṭho mahābāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi.6.38.
Word by word
- kaccit
- whether (interrogative particle, 'is it not so')
- na
- not
- ubhaya-vibhraṣṭaḥ
- fallen from both (paths, i.e., karma and jnana)
- chinna-abhram
- a broken/scattered cloud
- iva
- like
- naśyati
- perishes / is destroyed
- apratiṣṭhaḥ
- without support/foundation
- mahā-bāho
- O mighty-armed one (Krishna)
- vimūḍhaḥ
- bewildered/confused
- brahmaṇaḥ
- of Brahman (the Absolute)
- pathi
- on the path
Commentary
38. Having failed in both, does he not perish like a riven cloud, supportless, O mighty-armed, and perplexed in the path to Brahman ?
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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