# Bhagavad Gita 7.19

**Canonical reference:** `gita.7.19`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते।
वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः ॥

## IAST

bahūnāṃ janmanāmante jñānavānmāṃ prapadyate
vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

At the end of many lives, the man possessed of knowledge approaches me, (believing) that Vāsudeva is everything. Such a high-souled man is very hard to find.

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