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Bhagavad Gita 13.10

मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्ितरव्यभिचारिणी।विविक्तदेशसेवित्वमरतिर्जनसंसदि॥

mayi cānanyayogena bhakिtaravyabhicāriṇī |viviktadeśasevitvamaratirjanasaṃsadi ||

Unswerving devotion to Me through the Yoga of non-separation, resorting to solitary places, and a distaste for the company of people.

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

Unswerving devotion to Me, with concentration on Me and Me alone, a love for solitude, and indifference to social life;

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.