Sanskrit
दैवी सम्पद्विमोक्षाय निबन्धायासुरी मता । मा शुचः सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव ॥
daivī sampad vimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matā mā śucaḥ sampadaṃ daivīm abhijāto 'si pāṇḍava
Translation
The divine properties are deemed to be for liberation, the demoniacal for bondage. Grieve not, thou art born with divine properties, O Pândava.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Krishna states the stakes plainly: divine sampad leads toward mokṣa (liberation), demonic sampad toward bondage — no middle category is offered. Then the verse pivots from doctrine to direct address: “grieve not, you are born with divine properties.” This kind of personal reassurance breaking into general teaching recurs throughout the Gita — most famously opening Chapter 2 and closing Chapter 18 — and is part of why the text reads as a dialogue rather than a treatise even during its most list-heavy stretches.