Lord Krishna
Divine TeacherThe Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.
Speaking: Chapter 4, Verse 40
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Verse 40
The Yoga of Knowledge and Action
But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not attain God consciousness; they fall down. For the doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor in the next.
Context & Meaning
The ignorant, the faithless, and the chronically doubting — those who never commit to any path — find neither worldly nor spiritual happiness. Doubt as a tool of inquiry is valuable; doubt as an identity is destructive.