ये मे मतमिदं नित्यमनुतिष्ठन्ति मानवाः।श्रद्धावन्तोऽनसूयन्तो मुच्यन्ते तेऽपि कर्मभिः॥
ye me matam idaṃ nityam anutiṣṭhanti mānavāḥśraddhāvanto ’nasūyanto mucyante te ’pi karmabhiḥ
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
People who keep to this teaching of mine, trusting it and not picking at it, are set free from what their actions would otherwise bind them to.
सरल शब्दों में
A promise, with two conditions attached.
Śraddhā — trust, confidence. And anasūyantaḥ — not fault-finding, not carping.
That second one is the interesting condition. Not understanding. Not agreement. Not looking for the flaw.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Two people learn the same method. One tries it for six months. The other spends six months finding everything wrong with it. The second one knows far more about it and has not once done it.
और गहराई में
Anasūya is the word to sit with. It means the absence of asūyā — fault-finding, the reflex of looking for what is wrong with a thing before it has been tried.
The Gita is not asking for credulity. It has spent 2.29 conceding that hearing this is not knowing it, and 2.46 saying scripture becomes beside the point for someone who has seen. It is not a text that demands submission.
What it identifies is a specific posture that prevents anything from being tested: engaging with a practice primarily as something to evaluate. That posture feels rigorous and it is entirely self-sealing, because the evaluation never ends and the practice never starts.
Śraddhā is usually translated faith and that carries the wrong freight. It is closer to the working trust you extend to a method while you find out whether it does anything — provisional, revisable, and sufficient to begin.
Chapter 17 will make śraddhā the organising idea of a whole teaching, and this is its first real appearance.