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Bhagavad Gita 10.1

श्री भगवानुवाच · śrī bhagavānuvāca

भूय एव महाबाहो श्रृणु मे परमं वचः।यत्तेऽहं प्रीयमाणाय वक्ष्यामि हितकाम्यया॥

bhūya eva mahābāho śrṛṇu me paramaṃ vacaḥ |yatte'haṃ prīyamāṇāya vakṣyāmi hitakāmyayā ||

The Blessed Lord said, Again, O mighty-armed Arjuna, listen to my supreme word which I will declare to you, who are beloved, for your welfare.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Lord Shri Krishna said: Now, O Prince! Listen to My supreme advice, which I give you for the sake of your welfare, for you are My beloved.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 10.1 · SatsangVidya