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Bhagavad Gita 11.1

अर्जुन उवाच · arjuna uvāca

मदनुग्रहाय परमं गुह्यमध्यात्मसंज्ञितम्।यत्त्वयोक्तं वचस्तेन मोहोऽयं विगतो मम॥

madanugrahāya paramaṃ guhyamadhyātmasaṃjñitam |yattvayoktaṃ vacastena moho'yaṃ vigato mama ||

Arjuna said, By this explanation of the highest secret concerning the Self which Thou hast spoken, for the sake of blessing me, my delusion has been dispelled.

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

Arjuna said: My Lord! Your words concerning the Supreme Secret of Self, given for my blessing, have dispelled the illusions that surrounded 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.

Bhagavad Gita 11.1 · SatsangVidya