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Bhagavad Gita 13.29

प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः।यः पश्यति तथाऽऽत्मानमकर्तारं स पश्यति॥

prakṛtyaiva ca karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśaḥ |yaḥ paśyati tathā''tmānamakartāraṃ sa paśyati ||

He sees, who sees that all actions are performed solely by Nature and that the Self is without action.

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

He who understands that it is only the Law of Nature that brings action to fruition, and that the Self never acts, alone knows the Truth.

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.