Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 6.37What happens to one with faith who tries, and falls short?
Praśna No. 2
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 6.40“For no one who does good ever comes to an evil end.”
Trying is never wasted.
Arjuna asks about the person who sets out sincerely and does not finish. Is all of it lost? Kṛṣṇa’s answer is one of the gentlest lines in the Gītā: no one who does good comes to a bad end, in this life or the next.
Ask the Gītā your own question.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
The verses
Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 6.37अर्जुन उवाच
अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः।
अप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति।।
arjuna uvāca ayatiḥ śraddhayopeto yogāc calita-mānasaḥ aprāpya yoga-sansiddhiṁ kāṅ gatiṁ kṛṣṇa gacchati
Arjuna said, "If a person who is possessed of faith but has put in only inadequate effort finds his mind wandering away from Yoga, and then fails to attain perfection—what way does he go, O Krishna?"
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 6.40श्री भगवानुवाच
पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते।
नहि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति।।
śrī bhagavān uvāca pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśas tasya vidyate na hi kalyāṇa-kṛt kaścid durgatiṁ tāta gacchati
The Lord said, "Neither here in this world nor there in the next is there destruction for him. For no one who does good ever comes to an evil end."
The count
6.37 is verse 270 of 700, and verse 37 of 47 in chapter 6.
Arjuna asks at 6.37 and Kṛṣṇa answers at 6.40, 3 verses apart.
Durgati (an evil end), in any form, appears in exactly one verse of the 700, 6.40.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Going deeper
Arjuna's worry in chapter 6 is about effort that ends halfway. After 6.36 says that yoga is hard for an unrestrained mind but can be reached by right effort, 6.37 asks about the person who has faith but too little effort, whose mind wanders from yoga before reaching perfection: what way does that person go? 6.38 makes the fear sharper: fallen from both paths, with no support, does the person perish like a torn cloud? 6.39 asks Kṛṣṇa to remove the doubt completely, since no one else can. The reply is 6.40: there is no destruction for such a person here or hereafter, because no one who does good comes to an evil end. 6.41 goes on to say where the one who slipped is born again. Read the chapter at chapter 6, and what the Gītā says about failure collects related verses.