The Blessed Lord said: Whence is this perilous condition come upon thee, this dejection, un-Aryan-like, heaven-excluding, disgraceful, O Arjuna?

śrībhagavānuvāca = the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; kutaḥ = wherefrom; tvā = unto you; kaśmalaṃ = dirtiness; idaṃ = this lamentation; viṣame = in this hour of crisis; samupasthitaṃ = arrived; anārya = persons who do not know the value of life; juṣṭaṃ = practiced by; asvargyaṃ = which does not lead to higher planets; akīrti = infamy; karaṃ = the cause of; arjuna = O Arjuna.;