न च तस्मान्मनुष्येषु कश्चिन्मे प्रियकृत्तमः ।भविता न च मे तस्मादन्यः प्रियतरो भुवि ॥
na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priyakṛttamaḥ |bhavitā na ca me tasmād anyaḥ priyataro bhuvi ||
- न · na
- not
- तस्मात् · tasmāt
- than him
- मनुष्येषु · manuṣyeṣu
- among humans
- कश्चित् · kaścit
- anyone
- मे · me
- to me
- प्रियकृत्तमः · priyakṛttamaḥ
- doing dearer service
- भविता · bhavitā
- will be
- न · na
- nor
- तस्मात् · tasmāt
- than him
- अन्यः · anyaḥ
- another
- प्रियतरः · priyataraḥ
- dearer
- भुवि · bhuvi
- on earth
“And among humans none does dearer service to me than he; nor shall there be another on earth dearer to me than he.”
— Original plain-language translation
Krishna's love for the Gita's sharer is absolute — none dearer now, none hereafter. Service through teaching outranks all other service because it frees others. The superlatives are Krishna's own measure of how he values the gift of liberating knowledge.
— Reader's notes (original)