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Bhagavad Gita 6.42

अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम्।एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम्॥

athavā yogināmeva kule bhavati dhīmatām |etaddhi durlabhataraṃ loke janma yadīdṛśam ||

Or he is born in a family of even the wisest of yogis; verily, such a birth is very difficult to obtain in this world.

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

Or, he may be born in the family of wise sages, though such a birth is indeed very difficult to obtain.

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 6.42 · SatsangVidya