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Bhagavad Gita 15.12

यदादित्यगतं तेजो जगद्भासयतेऽखिलम्।यच्चन्द्रमसि यच्चाग्नौ तत्तेजो विद्धि मामकम्॥

yadādityagataṃ tejo jagadbhāsayate'khilam |yaccandramasi yaccāgnau tattejo viddhi māmakam ||

That light which resides in the sun, illuminating the whole world; that which is in the moon and in the fire—know that light to be Mine.

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

Remember that the light which proceeds from the sun, illuminating the whole world, and the light which is in the moon, and that which is in the fire, all are born of me.

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 15.12 · SatsangVidya