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Bhagavad Gita 7.26

वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन।भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन॥

vedāhaṃ samatītāni vartamānāni cārjuna |bhaviṣyāṇi ca bhūtāni māṃ tu veda na kaścana ||

I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present, and the future; however, no one knows Me.

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

I know, O Arjuna, all beings in the past, the present, and the future; but they do not know 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.

Bhagavad Gita 7.26 · SatsangVidya