# Bhagavad Gita 4.6

**Canonical reference:** `gita.4.6`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन्।
प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय सम्भवाम्यात्ममायया ॥

## IAST

ajo.api sannavyayātmā bhūtānāmīśvaro.api san
prakṛtiṃ svāmadhiṣṭhāya sambhavāmyātmamāyayā

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Even though I am unborn and inexhaustible in (my) essence even though I am lord of all beings still I take up the control of my own nature and am born by means of my delusive power.

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