दैवी सम्पद्विमोक्षाय निबन्धायासुरी मता ।मा शुचः सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव ॥
daivī sampad vimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matā |mā śucaḥ sampadaṃ daivīm abhijāto 'si pāṇḍava ||
- दैवी · daivī
- divine
- सम्पत् · sampat
- endowment
- विमोक्षाय · vimokṣāya
- for liberation
- निबन्धाय · nibandhāya
- for bondage
- आसुरी · āsurī
- demoniac
- मता · matā
- is deemed
- मा शुचः · mā śucaḥ
- do not grieve
- अभिजातः · abhijātaḥ
- born
- असि · asi
- you are
- पाण्डव · pāṇḍava
- O son of Pandu
“The divine endowment leads to freedom, the demoniac to bondage — that is the teaching. Do not grieve, O Pandava: you are born to the divine endowment.”
— Original plain-language translation
One sentence states the whole chapter's moral physics: character is trajectory. Krishna then steadies Arjuna personally — after the harsh catalogues, a word of reassurance. The warrior's grief in Chapter 1 was compassion, not demoniac weakness.
— Reader's notes (original)