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Bhagavad Gita 14.11

सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते।ज्ञानं यदा तदा विद्याद्विवृद्धं सत्त्वमित्युत॥

sarvadvāreṣu dehe'sminprakāśa upajāyate |jñānaṃ yadā tadā vidyādvivṛddhaṃ sattvamityuta ||

When the wisdom-light shines through every gate of this body, then it may be known that Sattva is predominant.

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

When the light of knowledge gleams forth from all the gates of the body, then be sure that purity prevails.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 14.11 · SatsangVidya