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Bhagavad Gita 18.56

सर्वकर्माण्यपि सदा कुर्वाणो मद्व्यपाश्रयः।मत्प्रसादादवाप्नोति शाश्वतं पदमव्ययम्॥

sarvakarmāṇyapi sadā kurvāṇo madvyapāśrayaḥ |matprasādādavāpnoti śāśvataṃ padamavyayam ||

Having taken refuge in Me and doing all actions, by My grace he obtains the eternal, indestructible state of being.

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

Relying on Me in all his actions and doing them for My sake, he attains, by My grace, eternal and unchangeable life.

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.