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Bhagavad Gita 9.27

यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत्।यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम्॥

yatkaroṣi yadaśnāsi yajjuhoṣi dadāsi yat |yattapasyasi kaunteya tatkuruṣva madarpaṇam ||

Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer in sacrifice, whatever you give, whatever austerity you practice, O Arjuna, do it as an offering to Me.

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

Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you sacrifice and give, whatever austerities you practice, do all as an offering to Me.

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 9.27 · SatsangVidya