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Bhagavad Gita 3.2

व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे।तदेकं वद निश्िचत्य येन श्रेयोऽहमाप्नुयाम्॥

vyāmiśreṇeva vākyena buddhiṃ mohayasīva me |tadekaṃ vada niśिcatya yena śreyo'hamāpnuyām ||

With this seemingly perplexing speech, you seem to be confusing my understanding; therefore, tell me one certain way by which I may attain bliss.

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

Your language confuses me and confounds my reason. Therefore, please tell me the only way by which I can, without doubt, secure my spiritual welfare.

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 3.2 · SatsangVidya