Chapter 1 · Verse 30 · Arjuna Visada Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 1.30
Sanskrit
गाण्डीवं स्रंसते हस्तात्त्वक्चैव परिदह्यते। न च शक्नोम्यवस्थातुं भ्रमतीव च मे मनः।।1.30।।
Transliteration
gāṇḍīvaṁ sraṁsate hastāt tvak chaiva paridahyate na cha śhaknomy avasthātuṁ bhramatīva cha me manaḥ
In plain words
When you fall apart—when your hands shake, your skin feels like it's on fire, and your mind won't stop spinning—you are not failing. The lesson for you: this is the moment the false self cracks open, and in that crack, something truer can finally emerge. Your dissolution is not the end; it's the beginning of what you were meant to become.
हिंदी अर्थ
मेरे हाथ से गांडीव धनुष गिर रहा है और मेरा शरीर जल रहा है। मेरा मन घबराहट में इधर-उधर भटक रहा है और मैं खड़े रहने में असमर्थ हूँ।
Word by Word
Arjuna's physical dissolution—his bow slipping, his skin burning, his mind whirling—is not weakness but the breaking of a false self. When the ego's armor cracks, we glimpse what has always been true: that our separate identity is an illusion we've clung to.
In modern life, when anxiety overwhelms us and our carefully constructed certainties collapse, we stand at the threshold of awakening—if we surrender rather than resist.
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Bhagavad Gita 1.30 — BG 1.30
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