Devanagari
कच्चिदेतच्छ्रुतं पार्थ त्वयैकाग्रेण चेतसा ।
कच्चिदज्ञानसम्मोह: प्रणष्टस्ते धनञ्जय ॥ ७२ ॥
Verse text
kaccid etac chrutaṁ pārtha
tvayaikāgreṇa cetasā
kaccid ajṣāna-sammohaḥ
praṇaṣṭas te dhanaṣ-jaya
Synonyms
kaccit
—
whether
;
etat
—
this
;
śrutam
—
heard
;
pārtha
—
O son of Pṛthā
;
tvayā
—
by you
;
eka-agreṇa
—
with full attention
;
cetasā
—
by the mind
;
kaccit
—
whether
;
ajṣāna
—
of ignorance
;
sammohaḥ
—
the illusion
;
praṇaṣṭaḥ
—
dispelled
;
te
—
of you
;
dhanam-jaya
—
O conqueror of wealth (Arjuna).
Translation
O son of Pṛthā, O conqueror of wealth, have you heard this with an attentive mind? And are your ignorance and illusions now dispelled?
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
72. O son of Pṛthā, have you heard this with close attention? O conqueror of wealth, have your ignorance and bewilderment been destroyed?
Translation (Baladeva Vidyabhusana)
72. O son of Pṛthā, have you heard this with close attention? O conqueror of wealth, have your ignorance and bewilderment been destroyed?
Purport
The Lord was acting as the spiritual master of Arjuna. Therefore it was His duty to inquire from Arjuna whether he understood the whole Bhagavad-gītā in its proper perspective. If not, the Lord was ready to re-explain any point, or the whole Bhagavad-gītā if so required. Actually, anyone who hears Bhagavad-gītā from a bona fide spiritual master like Kṛṣṇa or His representative will find that all his ignorance is dispelled. Bhagavad-gītā is not an ordinary book written by a poet or fiction writer; it is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Any person fortunate enough to hear these teachings from Kṛṣṇa or from His bona fide spiritual representative is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The Lord speaks this verse with the intention of teaching it again to Arjuna, if he were unable to grasp the meaning fully.
Purport (Baladeva Vidyabhusana)
Thus the scripture and glorification of speaking and hearing it have been spoken. The Lord now asks about the comprehension of the meaning of the scripture and the realization of the scripture. kaccid is an indeclinable particle indicating a question. If you have not completely understood, then I will again teach it. That is the intention of the question.
Surrender Unto Me
If Krsna, the teacher, is asking Arjuna, His student: "Do you understand now what you have to do? Have you heard properly?"
And why is Krsna asking this? ‑ Because, out of His great patience and affection for His student Arjuna who was surrender to Him, if Arjuna haven't been able to understand, Krsna was fully prepared to explain the entire Bhagavad‑gita again.