व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे ।तदेकं वद निश्चित्य येन श्रेयोऽहमाप्नुयाम्॥
vyāmiśreṇeva vākyena buddhiṃ mohayasīva metad ekaṃ vada niścitya yena śreyo ’ham āpnuyām
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Your words seem to contradict each other, and they are confusing me. Tell me one thing, plainly, that will get me to what is best.
सरल शब्दों में
He asks for one answer. Just one.
His complaint is vyāmiśreṇa iva vākyena — words that seem mixed, tangled together. He is not accusing Krishna of lying. He is saying he cannot get a single instruction out of what he has heard.
And he wants it niścitya — decided, settled. No more options.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
You ask three questions and get one long answer that covers all of them. It was probably a good answer. What you needed was to know what to do first.
और गहराई में
The request for one clear instruction is completely understandable, and Krishna is not going to grant it in the form Arjuna wants.
What he will do instead is show that the two things were never alternatives. That takes the whole chapter, and it is the reason the answer feels slower than the question.
The word śreyaḥ is worth noticing. Arjuna used it at 2.7 as well, when he first asked to be taught. It means the good that actually benefits you, as opposed to preyaḥ, the pleasant thing you happen to want. The distinction is older than the Gita and runs through the Upanishads.
So he is asking the right question with the right word. He is simply expecting the answer to come in a shape it cannot come in.
This is a pattern with teaching. The student asks for a rule and gets a distinction instead, and it feels like evasion until the distinction lands.