Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation: Verse 38
कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति ।
अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मण: पथि ॥
kaccinnobhaya-vibhraṣṭaś-chinnābhram-iva naśyati
apratiṣṭho mahābāho vimūḍho brahmaṇa: pathi – 6.38
Losing both (the erstwhile ritualistic path and its promises, as also the new yogic path and its reward), will he not, like clouds blown off by the wind, be driven to destruction, deluded in the path of Brahman?
Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation - Verse 38
Ma Gurupriya
People are generally given to the conventional path of rituals and ceremonies, believing in their acclaimed promises. When one takes to the spiritual path of yoga, all that is naturally shelved. If the spiritual path also proves abortive, the consequence is too adverse and drastic. The seeker loses whatever he was clinging to earlier. And he has failed in continuing the new yoga path properly, with the result he is neither here nor there. It is virtually a double denial and loss, making him totally aimless and rewardless.
Will it not be then like the fate of dense clouds clustering to shed profusely, but suddenly driven away by strong winds? What will happen to such a one, who is unable to complete his yoga pursuit and get fulfilment?
Arjuna wants Krishna to redress his anxiety. How pertinent is the question, enquiry!
