Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 6.40
Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 6.40 · 6 · Verse 40
Sanskrit Original
।।6.40।।श्रीभगवानुवाच श्रद्धया योगे प्रक्रान्तस्य तस्मात् प्रच्युतस्य इह च अमुत्र च विनाशः न विद्यते प्राकृतस्वर्गादिभोगानुभवे ब्रह्मानुभवे च अभिलषितानवाप्तिरूपः प्रत्यवायाख्यः अनिष्टावाप्तिरूपश्च विनाशो न विद्यते इत्यर्थः। न हि निरतिशयकल्याणरूपयोगकृत् कश्चित् कालत्रये अपि दुर्गतिं गच्छति।कथम् अयं भविष्यति इत्यत्राह
6.40 The Lord said Neither here nor there is destruction for him who has begun Yoga with faith and has then fallen away from it. The meaning is that there is no destruction either in the form of failure of attainment of desires or in the form of Pratyavaya, which means the attainment of what is undesirable because of defects in the performance of works. Therefore no one who practises this incomparably auspicious Yoga ever comes to an evil end in the present, past or future. Sri Krsna explains how this is so: