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TEXT 19 tapamy aham aham varsam
SYNONYMS  tapami--give
heat; aham--I; aham--I; varsam--rain; nigrhnami--withhold;
utsrjami--send forth; ca--and; amrtam--immortality;
ca--and; eva--certainly; mrtyuh--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 Krsna, by His
different energies, diffuses heat and light through the agency of electricity
and the sun. During summer season it is Krsna 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 Krsna, and Krsna meets us at the end as death. By analyzing all
these different energies of Krsna, one can ascertain that for Krsna there
is no distinction between matter and spirit, or, in other words, He is
both matter and spirit. In the advanced stage of Krsna consciousness, one
does not therefore make such distinctions. He sees Krsna only in everything.
Since Krsna
is both matter and spirit, the gigantic universal form comprising all material
manifestations is also Krsna, and His pastimes in Vrndavana as two-handed
Syamasundara, playing on a flute, are those of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead.
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