Chapter 1 · Verse 10 · Arjuna Visada Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 1.10
Sanskrit
अपर्याप्तं तदस्माकं बलं भीष्माभिरक्षितम्। पर्याप्तं त्विदमेतेषां बलं भीमाभिरक्षितम्।।1.10।।
Transliteration
aparyāptaṁ tadasmākaṁ balaṁ bhīṣhmābhirakṣhitam paryāptaṁ tvidameteṣhāṁ balaṁ bhīmābhirakṣhitam
In plain words
Right now you are measuring yourself—your strength, your resources, your readiness—and that measuring is what's draining you. You're looking at what you lack instead of what you're called to do. The lesson for you: the moment you shift from 'Do I have enough?' to 'What is mine to do?'—you step back into your power.
हिंदी अर्थ
हमारी सेना भीष्म के संरक्षण से अपूर्ण और कमजोर है, जबकि पांडवों की सेना भीम के नेतृत्व में पूर्ण और शक्तिशाली है।
Word by Word
Arjuna stands at the threshold where the mind measures itself against the world—counting soldiers, assessing strength, comparing forces. But this verse holds a secret: the moment we begin to measure ourselves through external circumstance, we have already lost our center.
The Pandava army appears insufficient because Arjuna's consciousness has contracted into the small self that compares and calculates. In your own moments of doubt, notice how fear always begins with measurement—of time, resources, capability—rather than with trust in the dharma of right action itself.
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Bhagavad Gita 1.10 — BG 1.10
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