# Bhagavad Gita 2.17

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.17`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अविनाशि तु तद्विद्धि येन सर्वमिदं ततम्।
विनाशमव्ययस्यास्य न कश्चित्कर्तुमर्हति ॥

## IAST

avināśi tu tadviddhi yena sarvamidaṃ tatam
vināśamavyayasyāsya na kaścitkartumarhati

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Know that to be indestructible which pervades all this the destruction of that inexhaustible (principle) none can bring about.

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