Sanskrit
जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये । ते ब्रह्म तद्विदुः कृत्स्नमध्यात्मं कर्म चाखिलम् ॥ २९ ॥
jarāmaraṇamokṣāya mām āśritya yatanti ye te brahma tad viduḥ kṛtsnam adhyātmaṃ karma cākhilam
Translation
They who, refuged in Me, strive for liberation from birth and death, they know the Eternal, the whole Self-knowledge, and all action.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Those who strive for freedom from birth and death “know Brahman entirely, the whole self-knowledge, and all action” — three terms the verse doesn’t stop to define. Verse 30 adds three more, adhibhuta, adhidaiva, and adhiyajna, to complete a six-term list that Arjuna explicitly asks Krishna to unpack, term by term, at the very start of chapter 8 — this verse functions as a preview whose payoff is deferred a full chapter.
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