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Bhagavad Gita 10.39

यच्चापि सर्वभूतानां बीजं तदहमर्जुन।न तदस्ति विना यत्स्यान्मया भूतं चराचरम्॥

yaccāpi sarvabhūtānāṃ bījaṃ tadahamarjuna |na tadasti vinā yatsyānmayā bhūtaṃ carācaram ||

And whatever is the seed of all beings, that too am I, O Arjuna; there is no being, be it moving or unmoving, that can exist without Me.

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

I am the seed of all beings, O Arjuna! No creature, moving or unmoving, can live without Me.

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.