त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत्मोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्यः परमव्ययम्
In plain words
Deluded by these things made of the three guṇas, the whole world does not know Me as beyond them and imperishable.
Word for word
Deluded by these three [kinds of] things made of the guṇas, this whole world does not know Me, beyond these [and] imperishable.
त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत्मोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्यः परमव्ययम्
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▸Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam
एवंभूतमपि परमेश्वरं नित्यशुद्धबुद्धमुक्तस्वभावं सर्वभूतात्मानं निर्गुणं संसारदोषबीजप्रदाहकारणं मां नाभिजानाति जगत् इति अनुक्रोशं दर्शयति भगवान् । तच्च किंनिमित्तं जगतः अज्ञानमित्युच्यते —
त्रिभिः गुणमयैः गुणविकारैः रागद्वेषमोहादिप्रकारैः भावैः पदार्थैः एभिः यथोक्तैः सर्वम् इदं प्राणिजातं जगत् मोहितम् अविवेकितामापादितं सत् न अभिजानाति माम् , एभ्यः यथोक्तेभ्यः गुणेभ्यः परं व्यतिरिक्तं विलक्षणं च अव्ययं व्ययरहितं जन्मादिसर्वभावविकारवर्जितम् इत्यर्थः ॥ १३ ॥
In plain words
This is what I am: the supreme Lord, whose nature is eternally pure, awake and free; the Self of every being; untouched by any attribute; the very cause by which the seed of saṃsāra's defects is burnt to ash. And the world does not recognize Me. In saying so, the Blessed Lord is showing His tenderness for them. And what accounts for that failure? It is the world's own ignorance — which is what is said next.
Because of these three strands — states made entirely of the guṇas, playing out as attachment, aversion, delusion, and everything like them — this whole world of living beings is thrown into confusion, unable to tell one thing clearly from another. And so it fails to recognize me at all — me, who stand entirely apart from these guṇas, utterly different from them in kind, imperishable, untouched by decay, free from every change that birth sets in motion. That's what the verse means.
Close to the Sanskrit
Being even such — the supreme Lord, whose very nature is eternally pure, awake and free, the Self of all beings, without attributes, the cause of the burning up of the seed of the defects of saṃsāra — Me the world does not recognize: thus the Blessed Lord shows His compassion. And that — occasioned by what? It is said to be the ignorance of the world —
By these three, consisting of the guṇas, modifications of the guṇas, in the forms of attachment, aversion, delusion, and so on, states, entities, by these, as described — this whole class of living beings, this world, being deluded, brought into the state of non-discrimination, does not recognize me, who am beyond, distinct from, of a different character from, these described guṇas, and imperishable, devoid of decay, devoid of every modification of state beginning with birth. That is the meaning.