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Bhagavad Gita 18.68

य इमं परमं गुह्यं मद्भक्तेष्वभिधास्यति।भक्ितं मयि परां कृत्वा मामेवैष्यत्यसंशयः॥

ya imaṃ paramaṃ guhyaṃ madbhakteṣvabhidhāsyati |bhakिtaṃ mayi parāṃ kṛtvā māmevaiṣyatyasaṃśayaḥ ||

He who, with supreme devotion to Me, teaches this supreme secret to My devotees, shall undoubtedly come to Me.

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

But he who teaches this great secret to My devotees, his is the highest devotion, and he shall surely come to Me.

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 18.68 · SatsangVidya