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Bhagavad Gita 2.17

अविनाशि तु तद्विद्धि येन सर्वमिदं ततम्।विनाशमव्ययस्यास्य न कश्चित् कर्तुमर्हति॥

avināśi tu tadviddhi yena sarvamidaṃ tatam |vināśamavyayasyāsya na kaścit kartumarhati ||

Know that to be indestructible, by which all this is pervaded. No one can cause the destruction of that, the Imperishable.

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

The Spirit, which pervades all that is seen, is imperishable. Nothing can destroy it.

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.