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Bhagavad Gita 6.43

तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्।यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन॥

tatra taṃ buddhisaṃyogaṃ labhate paurvadehikam |yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ saṃsiddhau kurunandana ||

Then he comes into contact with the knowledge acquired in his former body and strives even more for perfection, O Arjuna.

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

Then, the experience acquired in his former life will revive, and with it, he will more eagerly strive for perfection than before.

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.