Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]Deluded by these three guṇa-constituted states, all this world does not recognize Me, who am beyond them and imperishable.
BG 7.13
त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत् | मोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्यः परमव्ययम् ||१३||
tribhir guṇamayair bhāvair ebhiḥ sarvam idaṃ jagat | mohitaṃ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ param avyayam || 13 ||
"Deluded by the three guṇa-constituted states, all this world does not recognize Me — beyond them, imperishable."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Deluded by these states, the modifications of the three Gunas of Prakriti, all this world does not know Me who is beyond them, and immutable.
Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]Deluded by these three-fold states of nature, composed of the gunas, the world knoweth Me not who am beyond them and immutable.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]All this world, deluded by these three-fold qualities of nature, has no knowledge of me who am above them and imperishable.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]All this visible world is led astray, for that it knows Me not, who am beyond these changes, and who change not; all the world is blind with the bewilderment of the Qualities.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]All this world, deluded by these three guṇa-produced states, knows not Me, who am beyond them and immutable.