Krishna
पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते । नहि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति ॥
pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśastasya vidyate | nahi kalyāṇakṛtkaściddurgatiṃ tāta gacchati ||
O son of Pritha, there is no destruction for such a person, either here or in the next world. For no one who does good, my dear friend, ever comes to a bad end.
Explanation Arjuna has just asked what happens to someone who begins the path of yoga (disciplined spiritual practice) with faith but falls away before reaching the goal. Krishna reassures him that such a person is not lost, in this life or after it. Anyone who does good (kalyāṇa-kṛt) is protected from a bad fate (durgati).
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About the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita, in Sanskrit श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता (Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā ), “the song of the Lord”, is a dialogue of 18 chapters and 700 verses from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as the war is about to begin, the warrior Arjuna loses heart at the thought of fighting his own kin, and his charioteer Krishna answers him: on duty, on acting without attachment to the results, on knowledge, meditation and devotion. Sanjaya recounts the conversation to the blind king Dhritarashtra. The name is also written Bhagwad Gita, Bhagvad Gita, Bhagavat Gita or Bhagavad Geeta; with the honorific, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavad Gita or Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta; and often simply the Gita or Geeta.
Every verse is here in the original Sanskrit, with a Roman (IAST) transliteration, a plain-language translation and a short explanation, in English, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, French and Tamil. The translations were made from the Sanskrit for this site and reviewed; they follow no published translation. Reading is free, with no account or advertising, and your progress stays in your browser. The verses are numbered 1.1 to 18.78, 701 in all, counting the question that opens chapter 13.
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