Chapter 4 · Knowledge and Renunciation of Action

श्रीकृष्णŚrī Kṛṣṇa speaks

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अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मन:

ajñaśh chāśhraddadhānaśh cha sanśhayātmā vinaśhyati nāyaṁ loko ’sti na paro na sukhaṁ sanśhayātmanaḥ

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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (16 words)

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The opposite case, stated starkly: the ignorant, the faithless, and above all the person of divided mind are ruined — for the doubting soul there is neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness. Doubt is treated as more corrosive than ignorance.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:Doubt is treated as more corrosive than plain ignorance — the divided mind, not the empty one, is what ruins.