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Bhagavad Gita 15.11

यतन्तो योगिनश्चैनं पश्यन्त्यात्मन्यवस्थितम्।यतन्तोऽप्यकृतात्मानो नैनं पश्यन्त्यचेतसः॥

yatanto yoginaścainaṃ paśyantyātmanyavasthitam |yatanto'pyakṛtātmāno nainaṃ paśyantyacetasaḥ ||

The yogis striving for perfection behold Him dwelling in the Self; but, the unrefined and unintelligent, even though striving, do not see Him.

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

The saints, with great effort, find Him within themselves; however, the unintelligent, despite their efforts, cannot control their minds.

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 15.11 · SatsangVidya