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Bhagavad Gita 9.24

अहं हि सर्वयज्ञानां भोक्ता च प्रभुरेव च।न तु मामभिजानन्ति तत्त्वेनातश्च्यवन्ति ते॥

ahaṃ hi sarvayajñānāṃ bhoktā ca prabhureva ca |na tu māmabhijānanti tattvenātaścyavanti te ||

For I alone am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in reality, and thus they return to this mortal world.

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

I am the willing recipient of sacrifice, and I am its true Lord. But they do not know me truly, so they fall back.

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.