Sanskrit
वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन । भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन ॥ २६ ॥
vedāhaṃ samatītāni vartamānāni cārjuna bhaviṣyāṇi ca bhūtāni māṃ tu veda na kaścana
Translation
I know the beings that are past, that are present, that are to come, O Arjuna, but no one knoweth Me.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
A striking asymmetry stated in one line: Krishna knows all beings across past, present, and future, but “no one knoweth Me.” It reframes verses 14 and 25’s talk of maya and concealment as not incidental but total — the knowledge gap runs one direction only, and nothing earlier in the chapter has claimed otherwise, since even verse 19’s rare mahatma arrives at realization “at the close of many births,” not at will.