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Bhagavad Gita 10.9

मच्चित्ता मद्गतप्राणा बोधयन्तः परस्परम्।कथयन्तश्च मां नित्यं तुष्यन्ति च रमन्ति च॥

maccittā madgataprāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparam |kathayantaśca māṃ nityaṃ tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca ||

With their minds and lives wholly absorbed in Me, they enlighten each other and ever speak of Me, being satisfied and delighted.

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

With minds concentrated on Me, with lives absorbed in Me, and enlightening one another, they ever feel content and happy.

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.