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Bhagavad Gita 2.12

न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः।न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम्॥

na tvevāhaṃ jātu nāsaṃ na tvaṃ neme janādhipāḥ |na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayamataḥ param ||

Nor, at any time, was I not, nor thou, nor these rulers of men; nor, verily, shall we ever cease to be hereafter.

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

There was never a time when I was not, nor you, nor these princes were not; there will never be a time when we shall cease to exist.

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.