Learn·Chapter 4 · Knowledge, action and renunciation·Verse 6 of 42

Bhagavad Gītā 4.6, word by word

अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन्। प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय संभवाम्यात्ममायया

ajo ’pi sannavyayātmā bhūtānām īśhvaro ’pi san prakṛitiṁ svām adhiṣhṭhāya sambhavāmyātma-māyayā

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In English

There is no beginning to Me. Though I am imperishable and the Lord of all that exists, I manifest Myself by My own will and power.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

Though I am unborn and of imperishable nature, and though I am the Lord of all beings, yet, governing my own nature, I am born by my own Maya.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

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