Display
Devanagari is shown only when this page stored it. Harvard-Kyoto and ASCII are generated from the IAST verse.
Vanisource / Original texts
Bhagavad-gītā 6.39
DonateSave this passage to keep a private note on this device. Notes are not sent to Vedawiki.
Cite
Source navigation
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 39
- एतन्मे संशयं कृष्ण छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः ।
- त्वदन्यः संशयस्यास्य छेत्ता न ह्युपपद्यते ॥३९॥
- etan me saṁśayaṁ kṛṣṇa
- chettum arhasy aśeṣataḥ
- tvad-anyaḥ saṁśayasyāsya
- chettā na hy upapadyate
etatthis is — this is; memy — my; saṁśayamdoubt — doubt; kṛṣṇaO Kṛṣṇa — O Kṛṣṇa; chettumto dispel — to dispel; arhasiYou are requested — You are requested; aśeṣataḥcompletely — completely; tvatthan You — than You; anyaḥother — other; saṁśayasyaof the doubt — of the doubt; asyathis — this; chettāremover — remover; nanever — never; hicertainly — certainly; upapadyateis to be found — is to be found.
This is my doubt, O Kṛṣṇa, and I ask You to dispel it completely. But for You, no one is to be found who can destroy this doubt.
Kṛṣṇa is the perfect knower of past, present and future. In the beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord said that all living entities existed individually in the past, they exist now in the present, and they continue to retain individual identity in the future, even after liberation from the material entanglement. So He has already cleared up the question of the future of the individual living entity. Now, Arjuna wants to know of the future of the unsuccessful transcendentalist. No one is equal to or above Kṛṣṇa, and certainly the so-called great sages and philosophers who are at the mercy of material nature cannot equal Him. Therefore the verdict of Kṛṣṇa is the final and complete answer to all doubts, because He knows past, present and future perfectly—but no one knows Him. Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees alone can know what is what.