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Bhagavad Gita 13.23

य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं प्रकृतिं च गुणैःसह।सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि न स भूयोऽभिजायते॥

ya evaṃ vetti puruṣaṃ prakṛtiṃ ca guṇaiḥsaha |sarvathā vartamāno'pi na sa bhūyo'bhijāyate ||

He who thus knows the Spirit and Matter together with their qualities, in whatever condition he may be, he is not reborn.

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

He who understands God and Nature, along with her qualities, whatever his condition in life may be, will not come back to earth.

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.