Bhagavad Gita 6.37
अर्जुन उवाच | अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः | अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति ||
arjuna uvāca | ayatiḥ śraddhayopeto yogāc calita-mānasaḥ | aprāpya yoga-saṁsiddhiṁ kāṁ gatiṁ kṛṣṇa gacchati ||
Translation
Arjuna said: What end, O Kṛṣṇa! does he come to who, though possessed of faith, does not work hard, and whose mind is turned away from devotion without obtaining perfection in it?
Reflection
What have you started seriously and let slip, and what have you assumed about where that effort went?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Six
Arjuna asks the question that haunts every honest seeker. What if a man begins this path with faith, but his discipline is loose, and his mind drifts off before the practice has matured? Where does he land? The question is not academic. Arjuna is asking on behalf of anyone who has started something serious and seen himself fall away from it. The fear underneath is that the half-hearted yogi loses both worlds, the worldly one he set aside and the spiritual one he did not reach. That is the worry Krishna will spend the next several verses answering. The honesty of the question is what earns the answer.