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 40
Sri Bhagavan uvacha
Partha na eva iha na amutra vinashah tasya vidhyate I
Na hi kalyana krut kah chit durgatim tata gacchati II sloka 40
श्री भगवान उवाच
पार्थ न एव इह न अमुत्र विनाशः तस्य विद्यते ।
न हि कल्याण कृत कः चित् दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति ।। श्लोक ४०
The Blessed Lord said
O Partha, neither in this world nor in the next is there destruction for him; for, the doer of good, O my son, never comes to grief.
The word tata means father. It is father who has become the son. Therefore a junior or a son is addressed as tata indicating affection. The disciple is to the guru what the son is to the father. Therefore it is customary for the guru to address the disciple as son or tata. The Lord addressing Arjuna this way is a mark of the flow of grace.
It is open to people to inquire whether this world is intrinsically good or bad. God it is that is revealing himself as the phenomenon. The world therefore cannot be anything but good. Viewing it as filled with evil is a misnomer. One of the profoundest pronouncements of the Lord is ,"THE DOER OF GOOD NEVER COMES TO GRIEF". And the devotees of the Lord are ever the standing testimony to this fact. A sadhaka who slips from yoga never falls to a state inferior to what he has already attained. This fact is clarified thus:
A man gets his dessert in tune with his mental make up. The Lord is the kalpataru the fabled desire fulfilling tree to the devotees
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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