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Bhagavad Gita 18.69

न च तस्मान्मनुष्येषु कश्िचन्मे प्रियकृत्तमः।भविता न च मे तस्मादन्यः प्रियतरो भुवि॥

na ca tasmānmanuṣyeṣu kaśिcanme priyakṛttamaḥ |bhavitā na ca me tasmādanyaḥ priyataro bhuvi ||

There is no one among men who does service dearer to Me, nor shall there be anyone on earth dearer to Me than him.

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

There is no one among men who can perform a service dearer to Me than this, nor is there any man on earth more beloved by Me than him.

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 18.69 · SatsangVidya