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Bhagavad Gita 4.6

अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन्।प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय संभवाम्यात्ममायया॥

ajo'pi sannavyayātmā bhūtānāmīśvaro'pi san |prakṛtiṃ svāmadhiṣṭhāya saṃbhavāmyātmamāyayā ||

Though I am unborn and of imperishable nature, and though I am the Lord of all beings, yet, governing my own nature, I am born by my own Maya.

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

There is no beginning to Me. Though I am imperishable and the Lord of all that exists, I manifest Myself by My own will and power.

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.