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Bhagavad Gita 13.33

यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः।क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत॥

yathā prakāśayatyekaḥ kṛtsnaṃ lokamimaṃ raviḥ |kṣetraṃ kṣetrī tathā kṛtsnaṃ prakāśayati bhārata ||

Just as the one sun illuminates the entire world, so too does the Lord of the field (Supreme Self) illuminate the entire field, O Arjuna.

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

As the one Sun illuminates the entire earth, so the Lord illuminates the entire universe.

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.