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Bhagavad Gita 2.24

अच्छेद्योऽयमदाह्योऽयमक्लेद्योऽशोष्य एव च।नित्यः सर्वगतः स्थाणुरचलोऽयं सनातनः॥

acchedyo'yamadāhyo'yamakledyo'śoṣya eva ca |nityaḥ sarvagataḥ sthāṇuracalo'yaṃ sanātanaḥ ||

This Self cannot be cut, burned, wetted, nor dried up; it is eternal, all-pervasive, stable, immovable, and ancient.

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

It is impenetrable; it cannot be drowned, scorched, or dried. It is eternal, all-pervasive, unchanging, immovable, and most ancient.

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.