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Bhagavad Gita 10.36

द्यूतं छलयतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम्।जयोऽस्मि व्यवसायोऽस्मि सत्त्वं सत्त्ववतामहम्॥

dyūtaṃ chalayatāmasmi tejastejasvināmaham |jayo'smi vyavasāyo'smi sattvaṃ sattvavatāmaham ||

I am the gambling of the deceitful; I am the splendor of the splendid; I am victory; I am the resolve of the resolute; I am the goodness of the good.

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

I am the gambler's cheat and the splendor of the splendid; I am victory; I am effort; and I am the purity of the pure.

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 10.36 · SatsangVidya