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Bhagavad Gita 17.6

कर्षयन्तः शरीरस्थं भूतग्राममचेतसः।मां चैवान्तःशरीरस्थं तान्विद्ध्यासुरनिश्चयान्॥

karṣayantaḥ śarīrasthaṃ bhūtagrāmamacetasaḥ |māṃ caivāntaḥśarīrasthaṃ tānviddhyāsuraniścayān ||

Know thou these to be of demonical resolves, senselessly torturing all the elements in the body and Me who dwell in the body.

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

They are ignorant and torment the organs of the body, harassing Me who lives within. Know that they are devoted to evil.

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 17.6 · SatsangVidya