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Bhagavad Gita 14.26

मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्ितयोगेन सेवते।स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान् ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते॥

māṃ ca yo'vyabhicāreṇa bhakिtayogena sevate |sa guṇānsamatītyaitān brahmabhūyāya kalpate ||

And he who serves Me with unwavering devotion, he, crossing beyond the dualities, is fit for becoming Brahman.

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

And he who serves Me alone, with unwavering devotion, shall overcome the Qualities and become one with the Eternal.

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.