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Bhagavad Gita 9.15

ज्ञानयज्ञेन चाप्यन्ये यजन्तो मामुपासते।एकत्वेन पृथक्त्वेन बहुधा विश्वतोमुखम्॥

jñānayajñena cāpyanye yajanto māmupāsate |ekatvena pṛthaktvena bahudhā viśvatomukham ||

Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the All-Faced, as one, distinct, and manifold.

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

Others worship Me with full consciousness as the One, the Manifold, the Omnipresent, and the Universal.

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 9.15 · SatsangVidya