Srimad Bhagavadgeeta : Ch-9. Slo-19.

Monday, June 30, 2014.

Srimad Bhagavadgeeta :


Chapter-9. ( Raja-vidya-raja-guhya-yogam )


Slokam-19. ( 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.)



Tapamyahamaham      varsham      nigrhnamyutsrjami     ca,


amrtam     caiva    mrtyusca      sadasaccahamarjuna.



Arjuna  =  Hey   Arjuna;

Aham   tapamy  =  I   give   heat    (to  the  world) ;

Aham    varsham    nigrhnamy  =  I    withhold    rain;

utsrjami     ca  =  and    send    forth   (   rain   );

amrtam    ca   mrtyu   ca  =  immortality    and    death;

sat   ca   asat    ca   aham    eva  =  being     and     nonbeing   (   both   )    I   (Me).



I give heat, bring and withhold the rain; I am immortality, death and the being as also the not being o Arjuna. 


I give heat, I bring and withold the rain and I am immortality and surely death and both the true [the subtle] and untrue [the gross], Arjuna.


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.


Krishna, by His different energies, diffuses heat and light through the agency of electricity and the sun. During summer season it is Krishna 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 Krishna, and Krishna meets us at the end as death. By analyzing all these different energies of Krishna, one can acertain that for Krishna there is no distinction between matter and spirit, or, in other words, He is both matter and spirit. In the advanced stage of Krishna consciousness, one does not therefore make such distinctions. He sees Krishna only in everything.


Since Krishna is both matter and spirit, the gigantic universal form comprising all material manifestations is also Krishna, and His pastimes in Vrndavanam as two-handed Syamasundaram, playing on a flute, are those of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Here by the name Krishna we must understand "Paramarma."


Lord Krishna states that existing as the sun He gives heat to the worlds. He withholds and releases rain. He is immortal life and He is inevitable death. He is the manifest temporary, physical creation and at the same time He is the unmanifest eternal, invisible creation. Knowing that all these manifestations are non-different from the Supreme Lord, mahatmas or great and noble souls worship Him in different forms in the appropriate manner. This is a continuation from slokam-15  describing different conceptions of the Supreme Lord. 


Lord Krishna explains that He radiates heat by the sun which condenses moisture over bodies of water and rises up and forms clouds which He sends forth as rains in abundance in springtime according to the seasons of every location on the Earth. He is amritam or immortality as the life force that appears at the conception of all living beings and which departs at the cessation of all living beings as such He is also myrtuh or death. He is all beings, manifested as matter and unmanifested as spirit. The understanding is that according to their qualifications the mahatmanas or great beings know Lord Krishna as the internal witness of all living entities and worship Him as the one supreme absolute truth or as a specific avatar or incarnation and expansion as revealed in the Vedic scriptures. 


The Supreme Lord Krishna explains some of His potencies that through the sun and fire He is tapami or causes heat and He withholds and releases rain. He is amrtam or immortality being by which the world exists. He is also mrtyus or death that by which this world becomes destroyed. Never in contradiction the Supreme Lord is sat or that existence which manifest in the present time and asat or that existence which is unmanifest in present time but which existed in the past and which may manifest in the future. Thus Lord Krishna exists in every reality as the sum of all things intelligent and unintelligent which compose His transcendental body. The mahatmanas or great, noble beings referred to in verse 13 are those who meditate on the Supreme Lord as the unity, manifesting itself in corporeal multiformity and variegatedness throughout creation in the macrocosmic sense. So in order to more fully understand the attributes of the Supreme Lord characterized by the mahatmanas and the method they commune with the Supreme Lord has been depicted. Next will be described the behavior of the ignorant who full of desires covet enjoyment.