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Bhagavad Gita 7.8

रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययोः।प्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु॥

raso'hamapsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśisūryayoḥ |praṇavaḥ sarvavedeṣu śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṃ nṛṣu ||

I am the flavor in water, O Arjuna; I am the light in the moon and the sun; I am the syllable Om in all the Vedas, sound in the ether and virility in men.

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

O Arjuna! I am the fluidity in water, the light in the sun and moon, the mystic syllable Om in the Vedic scriptures, the sound in ether, and the virility in man.

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.