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Bhagavad Gita 13.26

यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम्।क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञसंयोगात्तद्विद्धि भरतर्षभ॥

yāvatsañjāyate kiñcitsattvaṃ sthāvarajaṅgamam |kṣetrakṣetrajñasaṃyogāttadviddhi bharatarṣabha ||

Wherever a being is born, whether unmoving or moving, know thou, O best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), that it is from the union of the field and its knower.

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

Wherever life is seen in things movable or immovable, it is the result of the combination of Matter and Spirit.

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.