Sanskrit
योऽयं योगस्त्वया प्रोक्तः साम्येन मधुसूदन । एतस्याहं न पश्यामि चञ्चलत्वात्स्थितिं स्थिराम् ॥
yo'yaṃ yogas tvayā proktaḥ sāmyena madhusūdana etasyāhaṃ na paśyāmi cañcalatvāt sthitiṃ sthirām
Translation
This yoga which Thou hast declared to be by equanimity, O Madhusudana, I see not a stable foundation for it, owing to restlessness;
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Arjuna interrupts the teaching for the first time since chapter 2, and the shift in speaker matters: the meditation instructions just given (verses 10–32) are met not with agreement but with a direct practical objection. He doesn’t dispute the value of the state Krishna describes — he disputes its achievability, given what he already knows about his own mind.
Concepts