Bhagavad Gita 6.38
कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति | अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि ||
kaccin nobhaya-vibhraṣṭaś chinnābhram iva naśyati | apratiṣṭho mahā-bāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi ||
Translation
Fallen from both, does he, O you of mighty arms! perish like a broken cloud, without support, and turned away from the path to the Brahman?
Reflection
Where in your life are you currently sitting between the old anchor and the new ground?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Six
Arjuna sharpens the worry with an image. A cloud that has been torn, with no ground beneath it and no other cloud to join, simply scatters. Is the half-finished yogi like that, having let go of the worldly anchor and not yet reached the divine one, dispersing into nothing? The picture is vivid because the fear is real. Anyone who has stepped halfway out of his old life into a new way of living knows this in-between zone, this feeling of having no platform under the feet. Arjuna is asking on behalf of every such person. Krishna will answer that the cloud is not lost. The wind carries it on.