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Bhagavad Gita 10.22

वेदानां सामवेदोऽस्मि देवानामस्मि वासवः।इन्द्रियाणां मनश्चास्मि भूतानामस्मि चेतना॥

vedānāṃ sāmavedo'smi devānāmasmi vāsavaḥ |indriyāṇāṃ manaścāsmi bhūtānāmasmi cetanā ||

Among the Vedas, I am the Sama-Veda; among the gods, I am Vasava; among the senses, I am the mind; and among living beings, I am intelligence.

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

Of the Vedas, I am the hymns; I am the electric force in the powers of nature; of the senses, I am the mind; and I am the intelligence in all that lives.

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.