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Bhagavad Gita 9.11

अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम्।परं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम्॥

avajānanti māṃ mūḍhā mānuṣīṃ tanumāśritam |paraṃ bhāvamajānanto mama bhūtamaheśvaram ||

Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of all beings.

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

Fools disregard Me, seeing Me clad in human form. They do not know that in My higher nature, I am the Lord-God of all.

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 9.11 · SatsangVidya