Gita Explained
कृष्ण कहते हैं4.42

तस्मादज्ञानसंभूतं हृत्स्थं ज्ञानासिनाऽऽत्मनः।छित्त्वैनं संशयं योगमातिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ भारत॥

tasmād ajñāna-sambhūtaṃ hṛt-sthaṃ jñānāsinātmanaḥchittvainaṃ sanśayaṃ yogam ātiṣṭhottiṣṭha bhārata

शब्दार्थ
tasmātthereforeajñāna-sambhūtamborn of ignorancehṛt-sthamsituated in the heartjñānaof knowledgeasināwith the swordātmanaḥof the selfchittvācut asunderenamthissanśayamdoubtyogamin karm yogātiṣṭhatake shelteruttiṣṭhaarisebhārataArjun, descendant of Bharat

व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।

श्लोक कहता है

So cut this doubt of yours — the one sitting in your heart, born of not knowing — with the sword of knowing. Take up the practice, Arjuna. Stand up.

सरल शब्दों में

The chapter ends where Chapter 2 began: uttiṣṭha — stand up.

Cut the doubt. It is hṛt-stham, sitting in the heart, and ajñāna-sambhūtam, born of not knowing.

And the weapon is knowledge, handed to a man holding a bow.

आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है

You stop explaining to the child why the rule exists and simply keep the rule, calmly, for the fifth time. The explaining was for you. The steadiness is what they can actually use.

और गहराई में

The chapter closes by putting a sword in Arjuna's hand, and the image is chosen for a soldier.

Ātmanaḥ in the phrase is ambiguous in a useful way. It can mean your own doubt — the one belonging to you. It can also mean the sword of the self, the blade being the self. Commentators take it both ways and the line works either way.

Uttiṣṭha — arise. The same word Krishna used at 2.3, before any teaching had happened. Two chapters of argument later, it comes back, and this time it has something under it.

And notice that the doubt is located hṛt-stham, in the heart. Not in the reasoning. Which is why the chapter's answer was never an argument — it was a teacher, a practice, and time.

The chapter has moved a long way. It opened with an unbroken chain of transmission and a question about arithmetic. It closes with a man being told to cut something out of his chest and get up.

Chapter 5 opens with Arjuna, entirely characteristically, asking again which of two things he is supposed to do.