Verse-36
Chapter 2 — Sānkhya Yog
Verse 36
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
avācyavādāṁśca bahūn vadiṣyanti tavāhitāḥ
nindantastava sāmarthyaṁ tato duḥkhataraṁ nu kim
🕉 English Translation
📜 Translation
English
Your enemies speaking ill of your capabilities will speak unseemly words. What is worse grief than that?
It is proper that the human being should not forsake his duty arising from his social position. Fleeing in any form is not acceptable to the Gita. Arjun wants to become an ascetic. He wants to live on alms. The Blessed Lord says, "Parth! neither you are in a state that you can attain perfecton as an ascetic, nor is this dispassion arising from attachment. Dispassion arising from attachment will draw you again into this world of attachments and illusion. Nor you will perfect the worldly conduct because you will be called as an escapist, deserter and coward in this world; infamy will be your destiny.