The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The Fate of the Imperfect Yogi 37-45
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 38
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| Hari charanam |
Kacchit na ubhaya vibhrashtah chidta abhram iva nashyati I
Apratishtah mahabaho vimudho brahmanah pathi II sloka 38
कच्चित् न उभय विभ्रष्टः छिद् त अभ्रं इव नश्यति ।
अप्रतिष्टः महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि ।। श्लोक ३८
Fallen from both, does he not perish like a rent cloud, without any bold, O might armed one, deluded in the path of the Brahman?
The rent cloud does not descend on earth as rainfall; it loses its distinctiveness in the firmament. Even such is the fate of the one fallen in yoga. He has neither the here nor the hereafter. Having renounced the sense-pleasures which are all of the earth, he happens to be one who has lost the here; and in not having obtained the perfection in yoga, he is bereft of the hereafter, the path of the Brahman. This is how he becomes fallen from both. Can there be a plight more painful than this?
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