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Bhagavad Gita 18.67

इदं ते नातपस्काय नाभक्ताय कदाचन।न चाशुश्रूषवे वाच्यं न च मां योऽभ्यसूयति॥

idaṃ te nātapaskāya nābhaktāya kadācana |na cāśuśrūṣave vācyaṃ na ca māṃ yo'bhyasūyati ||

Never speak this to one who is devoid of austerities or devotion, who does not render service, who does not desire to listen, or who cavils at Me.

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

Do not speak this to one who has not practiced austerities, or to one who does not love, or who will not listen, or who mocks.

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 18.67 · SatsangVidya