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Bhagavad Gita 18.40

न तदस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुनः।सत्त्वं प्रकृतिजैर्मुक्तं यदेभिः स्यात्ित्रभिर्गुणैः॥

na tadasti pṛthivyāṃ vā divi deveṣu vā punaḥ |sattvaṃ prakṛtijairmuktaṃ yadebhiḥ syātिtrabhirguṇaiḥ ||

There is no being on earth or in heaven among the gods that is liberated from the three qualities born of Nature.

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

There is nothing anywhere on earth or in the higher worlds that is free from the three Qualities, for they are born of Nature.

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.