# Bhagavad Gita 9.21

**Canonical reference:** `gita.9.21`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

ते तं भुक्त्वा स्वर्गलोकं विशालं
क्षीणे पुण्ये मर्त्यलोकं विशन्ति।
एवं त्रयीधर्ममनुप्रपन्ना
गतागतं कामकामा लभन्ते ॥

## IAST

te taṃ bhuktvā svargalokaṃ viśālaṃ kṣīṇe puṇye martyalokaṃ viśanti
evaṃ trayīdharmamanuprapannā gatāgataṃ kāmakāmā labhante

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

they enter the mortal world when (their) merit is exhausted. Thus those who wish for objects of desire and resort to the ordinances of the three ( Vedas )

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