Krishna delivers the terrifying dark side of the coin from Verse 39. He lists the three toxic traits that guarantee destruction: the ignorant person (ajñaś), the one devoid of faith (aśraddadhānaś), and the chronic doubter or cynic (saṃśayātmā). Such a person is utterly ruined and falls down (vinaśyati). Krishna concludes with a brutal, absolute diagnosis: For the chronically doubting soul (saṃśayātmanaḥ), there is absolutely no happiness or success in this material world (nāyaṃ loko 'sti), nor in the spiritual world to come (na paro), nor is there any joy anywhere (na sukhaṃ).