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Bhagavad Gita 13.27

समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम्।विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति॥

samaṃ sarveṣu bhūteṣu tiṣṭhantaṃ parameśvaram |vinaśyatsvavinaśyantaṃ yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati ||

He who sees the Supreme Lord existing truly in all beings, the imperishable within the perishable, sees indeed.

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

He who can see the Supreme Lord in all beings, the Imperishable amidst the perishable, he is the one who truly sees.

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.