Chapter 1 · Verse 43 · Arjuna Visada Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 1.43
Sanskrit
दोषैरेतैः कुलघ्नानां वर्णसङ्करकारकैः। उत्साद्यन्ते जातिधर्माः कुलधर्माश्च शाश्वताः।।1.43।।
Transliteration
doṣhair etaiḥ kula-ghnānāṁ varṇa-saṅkara-kārakaiḥ utsādyante jāti-dharmāḥ kula-dharmāśh cha śhāśhvatāḥ
In plain words
When everything you've inherited—your family's way, your ancestors' values, the very ground you stand on—feels like it's crumbling, the panic is real, and Krishna doesn't ask you to pretend it isn't. What you're feeling right now, that terror of losing what matters, is the sign that your heart still cares deeply about what is right and true. The lesson for you: speak the darkness aloud, name what breaks in you, because the very act of naming it—without turning away—is where healing begins.
हिंदी अर्थ
इन बुराइयों से कुल को नष्ट करने वाले वर्णसंकरता के कारण जाति और कुल के शाश्वत धर्म नष्ट हो जाते हैं। जब परिवार के धर्म और परंपराएं मिट जाती हैं, तो पूरे समाज का विनाश हो जाता है।
Word by Word
Arjuna is sounding the depths of his own despair, naming the poison that spreads when dharma collapses—when right action gives way to confusion and ancestral wisdom crumbles. The Gita does not dismiss this fear; it honors it as a genuine recognition of what is at stake.
Yet in speaking this darkness aloud, Arjuna unwittingly invites us to see that naming the wound is the first step toward healing it, and that the very intensity of his concern shows a heart still capable of dharmic transformation.
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Bhagavad Gita 1.43 — BG 1.43
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