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Bhagavad Gita 10.20

अहमात्मा गुडाकेश सर्वभूताशयस्थितः।अहमादिश्च मध्यं च भूतानामन्त एव च॥

ahamātmā guḍākeśa sarvabhūtāśayasthitaḥ |ahamādiśca madhyaṃ ca bhūtānāmanta eva ca ||

I am the Self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

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

O Arjuna! I am the Self, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the life, and the end of them all.

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.