Chapter 4 Verse 40 of 43

• ajñaś cāśraddadhānaś ca
• saḿśayātmā vinaśyati
• nāyaḿ loko 'sti na paro
• na sukhaḿ saḿśayātmanaḥ

Translation

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.

Synonyms

• ajñaḥ

  a fool who has no knowledge in standard scriptures

• ca

  and

• aśraddadhānaḥ

  without faith in revealed scriptures

• ca

  also

• saḿśaya

  of doubts

• ātmā

  a person

• vinaśyati

  falls back

• na

  never

• ayam

  in this

• lokaḥ

  world

• asti

  there is

• na

  nor

• paraḥ

  in the next life

• na

  not

• sukham

  happiness

• saḿśaya

  doubtful

• ātmanaḥ

  of the person.

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