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Bhagavad Gita 11.54

भक्त्या त्वनन्यया शक्यमहमेवंविधोऽर्जुन।ज्ञातुं दृष्टुं च तत्त्वेन प्रवेष्टुं च परंतप॥

bhaktyā tvananyayā śakyamahamevaṃvidho'rjuna |jñātuṃ dṛṣṭuṃ ca tattvena praveṣṭuṃ ca paraṃtapa ||

But by single-minded devotion, I can be known, seen, and entered into in reality, O Arjuna.

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

Only through tireless devotion can I be seen and known; only in this way can a person become one with Me, O Arjuna!

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 11.54 · SatsangVidya