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Bhagavad Gita 9.3

अश्रद्दधानाः पुरुषा धर्मस्यास्य परन्तप।अप्राप्य मां निवर्तन्ते मृत्युसंसारवर्त्मनि॥

aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya parantapa |aprāpya māṃ nivartante mṛtyusaṃsāravartmani ||

Those who have no faith in this Dharma, O Parantapa, return to the path of this world without attaining Me.

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

They who have no faith in this teaching cannot find Me; they remain lost in the purlieus of this perishable world.

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.