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The Fate Of The Unsuccessful Yogī
It is not that  Bhagavad-gītā  rejects the meditational  yoga  process; it recognizes it as a bona fide method, but it further indicates that it is not possible in this age. Thus the subject in the Sixth Chapter of  Bhagavad-gītā  is quickly dropped by Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna. Arjuna next asks:
ayatiḥ śraddhayopeto yogāc calita-māṇasaḥ aprāpya yoga-saṁsiddhiṁ kāṁ gatiṁ kṛṣṇa gacchati
“What is the destination of the man of faith who does not persevere, who in the beginning takes to the process of self-realization but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness and thus does not attain perfection in mysticism?” (Bg. 6.37) In other words, he is asking what becomes of the unsuccessful  yogā , or the person who attempts to perform  yoga  but somehow desists and does not succeed. It is something like a student who does not get his degree because he drops out of school. Elsewhere in the  Gītā , Śrī Kṛṣṇa points out to Arjuna that out of many men few strive for perfection, and out of those who strive for perfection, only a few succeed. So Arjuna is inquiring after the vast number of failures. Even if a man has faith and strives for perfection in the  yoga  system, Arjuna points out that he may not attain this perfection due to “worldly-mindedness.”
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