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Bhagavad Gita 4.9

जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः।त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन॥

janma karma ca me divyamevaṃ yo vetti tattvataḥ |tyaktvā dehaṃ punarjanma naiti māmeti so'rjuna ||

He who thus knows, in their true light, My divine birth and actions, having abandoned the body, is not born again; he comes to Me, O Arjuna.

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

He who realizes the divine truth concerning My birth and life does not take birth again; and when he leaves his body, he becomes one with Me.

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.