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Bhagavad Gita 9.10

मयाऽध्यक्षेण प्रकृतिः सूयते सचराचरम्।हेतुनाऽनेन कौन्तेय जगद्विपरिवर्तते॥

mayā'dhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram |hetunā'nena kaunteya jagadviparivartate ||

Under Me, as supervisor, Nature produces the moving and the unmoving; therefore, O Arjuna, the world revolves.

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

Under my guidance, Nature produces all movable and immovable things. Thus, O Arjuna, this universe revolves.

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 9.10 · SatsangVidya