दैवी सम्पद्विमोक्षाय निबन्धायासुरी मता।मा शुचः सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव॥
daivī sampad vimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matāmā śucaḥ sampadaṃ daivīm abhijāto ’si pāṇḍava
Word by word
The verse says
The divine share leads to freedom, the demonic one to being tied up. Do not grieve. You are born into the divine share, Arjuna.
In plain words
Krishna breaks off the lists to say something personal.
Arjuna has not asked anything. But he has just heard a long description of what a bad man looks like, and Krishna can see him doing the arithmetic on himself.
Mā śucaḥ - do not grieve. Four syllables, dropped into the middle of a hard chapter, for one frightened man.
Where you've felt this · in family life
Your father is telling your son, at length, about the kind of person who throws money away. Your son is eleven and has just lost the note he was given for the bus. He has gone very quiet. Then your father stops, puts a hand on his head and says: not you, you are careful, I am talking about other people. The boy comes back into the room. Nothing about the lecture changed. He only needed to know he was not the subject of it.
Going deeper
Being told you are not the one being described is the whole function of this line, and it lands at exactly the right moment.
Twenty-six good qualities and six bad ones have just been read out. Any honest listener places themselves somewhere unflattering in that, because the bad list is short and vivid and the good one is long. Krishna does not leave Arjuna sitting in it. He stops and tells him which side he was born on.
The order matters. The reassurance arrives before Arjuna has improved in any way at all. He is still the man who dropped his bow and refused to fight. Being told he belongs to the divine share is not a report on his performance.
So if that list left you feeling caught out, this line was written for you as well. The point of describing a disease is not to tell the patient they are hopeless.