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Bhagavad Gītā 6.42

BG 6.42

अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम्। एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम्

atha vā yoginām eva kule bhavati dhīmatām etad dhi durlabhataraṁ loke janma yad īdṛiśham

Or, he may be born in the family of wise sages, though such a birth is indeed very difficult to obtain.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

Or he is born in a family of even the wisest of yogis; verily, such a birth is very difficult to obtain in this world.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

atha vā—else; yoginām—of those endowed with divine wisdom; eva—certainly; kule—in the family; bhavati—take birth; dhī-matām—of the wise; etat—this; hi—certainly; durlabha-taram—very rare; loke—in this world; janma—birth; yat—which; īdṛiśham—like this

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 6.42, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/6.42), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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