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Bhagavad Gita 10.12

अर्जुन उवाच · arjuna uvāca

परं ब्रह्म परं धाम पवित्रं परमं भवान्।पुरुषं शाश्वतं दिव्यमादिदेवमजं विभुम्॥

paraṃ brahma paraṃ dhāma pavitraṃ paramaṃ bhavān |puruṣaṃ śāśvataṃ divyamādidevamajaṃ vibhum ||

Arjuna said, "You are the Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode, the supreme purifier, eternal, divine Person, the primeval God, unborn, and omnipresent."

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

Arjuna asked: Thou art the Supreme Spirit, the Eternal Home, the Holiest of Holies, the Eternal Divine Self, the Primal God, the Unborn, and Omnipresent.

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 10.12 · Vidya