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Bhagavad Gita 9.13

महात्मानस्तु मां पार्थ दैवीं प्रकृतिमाश्रिताः।भजन्त्यनन्यमनसो ज्ञात्वा भूतादिमव्ययम्॥

mahātmānastu māṃ pārtha daivīṃ prakṛtimāśritāḥ |bhajantyananyamanaso jñātvā bhūtādimavyayam ||

But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a single-minded devotion, knowing Me as the imperishable source of all beings.

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

But the great souls, O Arjuna! Filled with my divine spirit, they worship me, fix their minds on me alone, for they know that I am the imperishable source of being.

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.