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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.36.26

Mahābhārata 6.36.26

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.36.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.36.26)

māṃ ca yo'vyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena sevate |  
sa guṇānsamatītyaitānbrahmabhūyāya kalpate || 26 ||

> And he who serves Me with an unswerving devotion, he, going beyond the Gunas, is fitted for becoming Brahman.  
> — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita

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## Translations (2)

- [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.14.26) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.38.4) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.38.26) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (2)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.38.26) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.38.26) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.14.26) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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