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Bhagavad Gita 15.10

उत्क्रामन्तं स्थितं वापि भुञ्जानं वा गुणान्वितम्।विमूढा नानुपश्यन्ति पश्यन्ति ज्ञानचक्षुषः॥

utkrāmantaṃ sthitaṃ vāpi bhuñjānaṃ vā guṇānvitam |vimūḍhā nānupaśyanti paśyanti jñānacakṣuṣaḥ ||

The deluded do not see Him who departs, stays, and enjoys; but those who possess the eye of knowledge behold Him.

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

The ignorant do not see that it is He who is present in life and departs at death, or even that it is He who enjoys pleasure through the qualities. Only the eye of wisdom sees this.

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.