# Bhagavad Gita 8.20

**Canonical reference:** `gita.8.20`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः।
यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति ॥

## IAST

parastasmāttu bhāvo.anyo.avyakto.avyaktātsanātanaḥ
yaḥ sa sarveṣu bhūteṣu naśyatsu na vinaśyati

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

without a will of its own. But there is another entity unperceived and eternal and distinct from this unperceived (principle) which is not destroyed when all entities are destroyed. It is called the unperceived, the indestructible

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