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Bhagavad Gita 7.22

स तया श्रद्धया युक्तस्तस्याराधनमीहते।लभते च ततः कामान्मयैव विहितान् हि तान्॥

sa tayā śraddhayā yuktastasyārādhanamīhate |labhate ca tataḥ kāmānmayaiva vihitān hi tān ||

Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that form and obtains his desired outcome, which is ordained by Me alone.

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

If he worships one form alone with real faith, then his desires shall be fulfilled through that alone; for thus I have ordained.

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.