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Bhagavad Gita 18.55

भक्त्या मामभिजानाति यावान्यश्चास्मि तत्त्वतः।ततो मां तत्त्वतो ज्ञात्वा विशते तदनन्तरम्॥

bhaktyā māmabhijānāti yāvānyaścāsmi tattvataḥ |tato māṃ tattvato jñātvā viśate tadanantaram ||

By devotion, he knows Me in truth, who and what I am; then, having known Me in truth, he immediately enters into the Supreme.

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

By such devotion, he sees Me, who I am and what I am; and thus realizing the truth, he enters into My kingdom.

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.