Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च ।
अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन ॥१९॥
tapāmy aham ahaṁ varṣaṁ
nigṛhṇāmy utsṛjāmi ca
amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca
sad asac cāham arjuna
Word for word (synonyms)
- tapāmi
- give heat
- aham
- I
- aham
- I
- varṣam
- rain
- nigṛhṇāmi
- withold
- utsṛjāmi
- send forth
- ca
- and
- amṛtam
- immortality
- ca
- and
- eva
- certainly
- mṛtyuḥ
- death
- ca
- and
- sat
- being
- asat
- nonbeing
- ca
- and
- aham
- I
- arjuna
- O Arjuna
Translation
O Arjuna, I control heat, the rain and the drought. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both being and nonbeing are in Me.
Purport
Kṛṣṇa, by His different energies, diffuses heat and light through the agency of electricity and the sun. During summer season it is Kṛṣṇa who checks rain from falling from the sky, and then, during the rainy season, He gives unceasing torrents of rain. The energy which sustains us by prolonging the duration of our life is Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa meets us at the end as death. By analyzing all these different energies of Kṛṣṇa, one can acertain that for Kṛṣṇa there is no distinction between matter and spirit, or, in other words, He is both matter and spirit. In the advanced stage of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one does not therefore make such distinctions. He sees Kṛṣṇa only in everything.
Since Kṛṣṇa is both matter and spirit, the gigantic universal form comprising all material manifestations is also Kṛṣṇa, and His pastimes in Vṛndāvana as two-handed Śyāmasundara, playing on a flute, are those of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
What this verse teaches
Worshiping Kṛṣṇa in His universal form (viśvarūpa upāsana) – Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading, ultimate shelter and cause of all causes
- Themes
- Death
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- Bhagavad-gītā 9.18–19 1966-12-05 · New York
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