Chapter 2 · Verse 9 · Sankhya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 2.9
Sanskrit
सञ्जय उवाच एवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तप। न योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमुक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह।।2.9।।
Transliteration
sañjaya uvācha evam-uktvā hṛiṣhīkeśhaṁ guḍākeśhaḥ parantapa na yotsya iti govindam uktvā tūṣhṇīṁ babhūva ha
In plain words
You've argued with yourself until exhaustion, convinced that stepping back is the only honest choice—but that silence you're sitting in now is not defeat, it's an opening. The lesson for you: the moment you stop defending your refusal and actually listen is when transformation enters. Your resistance has done its work; now let it teach you what you're really afraid of, and who you might become if you trust what comes next.
हिंदी अर्थ
संजय कहते हैं कि अर्जुन ने हृषीकेश (कृष्ण) से कहा - "मैं युद्ध नहीं करूंगा" और फिर चुप हो गया। इस तरह गोविंद के सामने अर्जुन मौन रहकर बैठ गया।
Word by Word
Arjuna's declaration of refusal marks the moment when the ego, believing itself to be the doer and protector, attempts to withdraw from its duty—yet this very silence that follows is pregnant with the possibility of transformation. In that hush, the spiritual journey truly begins, for it is only when the small self exhausts its arguments that the Self becomes audible.
When we too reach such moments of inner silence, stripped of our justifications and certainties, we open ourselves to receive wisdom that no amount of thinking could provide.
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Bhagavad Gita 2.9 — BG 2.9
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