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Bhagavad Gita 18.64

सर्वगुह्यतमं भूयः श्रृणु मे परमं वचः।इष्टोऽसि मे दृढमिति ततो वक्ष्यामि ते हितम्॥

sarvaguhyatamaṃ bhūyaḥ śrṛṇu me paramaṃ vacaḥ |iṣṭo'si me dṛḍhamiti tato vakṣyāmi te hitam ||

Hear again My supreme word, most secret of all; for you are dearly beloved of Me, I will tell you what is good.

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

Listen to My last word once more, the deepest secret of all; you are My beloved, you are My friend, and I speak for your welfare.

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 18.64 · SatsangVidya