Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verse 40

श्रीभगवानुवाच । पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते । न हि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद् दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति

śrībhagavānuvāca | pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśastasya vidyate | na hi kalyāṇakṛtkaścid durgatiṃ tāta gacchati

Translation

O Pārtha, neither in this world nor in the next is there destruction for him; none, verily, who does good, My son, ever comes to grief.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

pārtha

O Pārtha

na

not

eva

even

iha

here

na

not

amutra

in the next world

vināśaḥ

destruction

tasya

of him

vidyate

is

na

not

hi

surely

kalyāṇakṛt

righteous-doer

kaścit

any one

durgatim

to an evil path (fate)

tāta

O beloved

gacchati

goes

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

He who has failed in Yoga will not be subject to a lower birth than the present one either here or hereafter. My son: 'tāta' in Sanskrit means 'father' because the father propagates himself in the form of his son. Since thus the father himself is the son, the son also is called tāta. Even a disciple, though not a son, is addressed as son because he is like a son.