# Bhagavad Gita 8.4

**Canonical reference:** `gita.8.4`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम्।
अधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र देहे देहभृतां वर ॥

## IAST

adhibhūtaṃ kṣaro bhāvaḥ puruṣaścādhidaivatam
adhiyajño.ahamevātra dehe dehabhṛtāṃ vara

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

The Adhibhūta is all perishable things. The Adhidaivata is the (primal) being. And the Adhiyajña O best of embodied (beings)! is I myself in this body. And he who leaves this body and departs (from this world) remembering me in (his) last moments comes into my essence.

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