Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verse 38
कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति । अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि
kaccinnobhayavibhraṣṭaśchinnābhramiva naśyati | apratiṣṭho mahābāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi
Translation
Having failed in both, does he not perish like a riven cloud, supportless, O mighty-armed, and perplexed in the path to Brahman?
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- kaccit
- is it that
- na
- not
- ubhayavibhraṣṭaḥ
- from both, fallen
- chinnābhram
- torn, cloud
- iva
- like
- naśyati
- is destroyed
- apratiṣṭhaḥ
- unstable
- mahābāho
- O mighty-armed
- vimūḍhaḥ
- deluded
- brahmaṇaḥ
- of Brahman
- pathi
- in the path
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Both: the path of Karma and the path of Yoga. The path to Brahman: the path by which Brahman can be reached.