Bambhārambhe laghu-kriyā. Aja-yuddhe, fighting between two goats. Now, they are very serious about fighting, and somebody comes, (claps) does like this (claps), and they go away. The fighting stops. You see? So bambhārambhe, the attempt is very great, but the effect is little. Aja-yuddhe muni-śrāddhe: "And a ceremony observed by some sages in the jungle . . ." What they have got?
They have got some leaves and flowers. That's all. What arrangement will be made? And prabhāte megha-ḍambare: "And in the morning, thundering sound of the cloud." And similarly, dam-pate kalahe, I mean to say, war between husband and wife. So these things are to be taken as insignificant.
So, of course, in India the quarrel between husband and wife, nobody cares. Nobody takes very seriously. The husband may complain, the wife may complain. Everyone says: "Yes, yes. That's all right. It will be all right." They never go to court for divorce. You see? (chuckles) But it is . . . there is no seriousness. And actually it is fact. I have seen, I have experienced.
That they divorce, but still, the husband is anxious for the wife, and the wife is anxious for the husband. The divorce is artificial. The husband and wife, the combination, that cannot be cut off. So one should tolerate these things. If there is some misunderstanding, they should not go to the court for divorce. They should tolerate. These are some of the rules for spiritual advancement.
So here it is said that, "Whether this attempt, just like serious attempt, but at the same time it is broken, whether it is like a broken cloud which has no meaning, no rain? That's all. Is it like that?" Apratiṣṭho mahā-bāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi (BG 6.38). Brāhmaṇaḥ pathi means advancement on spiritual success. "So if he is half-hazardly, half-hazardly, halfway he finishes, then what is the result?" Etan me saṁśayaṁ kṛṣṇa (BG 6.39): "I am doubtful about these things." Why?
Now, because if this yoga system . . . now, take for this yoga system which is prescribed. Now, if somebody thinks, "Oh, it was attempted . . . it was prescribed to Arjuna, and he rejected it because it is very difficult. Oh. Never . . . never try for any spiritual. Let us do." No. Arjuna is putting, therefore, this question so that in future people may not be discouraged. May not be discouraged. Therefore he is asking.
What is that? Etan me saṁśayaṁ kṛṣṇa: "It is some of the doubts in my mind, Kṛṣṇa." Chettum arhasy aśeṣataḥ: "You will kindly clear my doubts. What happens to this person who does not achieve the pure, I mean to say, highest perfection of success, but half finished or one-fourth finished? Then what happens to them?" Tu . . . tvad-anyaḥ saṁśayasyāsya chettā na hy upapadyate: "I don't think that anyone can eradicate my doubts except You."
Now, bhagavān uvāca. Now, Kṛṣṇa is replying Arjuna what happens to this half-finished, half-finished yogī. Yogī . . . always remember, yogī means either this dhyāna-yogī or jñāna-yogī or bhakti-yogī. Yogī. Yogī does not mean simply those who are meditator. Yogī means the meditator, they are also yogī, and those who are trying to understand the Absolute Truth by philosophical, by theosophical way, they are also yogī. And those who are actually yogī, they are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So yogī.