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Knowledge of the Absolute state of the entity is a principle of the state of the entity.
३७३
the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is all-pervading by His multi-energies, both material and spiritual.
TEXT II
रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभासि शशिसूर्ययोः । 
    प्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु ॥ ८ ॥
raso'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu śabdah khe paurusaṁ nrsu
rasah —taste;  aham —I;  apsu —in water;  kaunteya —O son of Kuntī;  prabhā asmi —I am the light;  śaśi-sūryayoh —in the sun and the moon;  praṇavah —the three letters A.U.M.;  sarva —in all;  vedeṣu —in the  Vedas ;  śabdah —sound vibration;  khe —in the ether;  pauruṣam —ability;  nṛṣu —in man.
TRANSLATION
O son of Kuntī [Arjuna], I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.
PURPORT
This verse explains how the Lord is all-pervasive by His diverse material and spiritual energies. The Supreme Lord can be preliminarily perceived by His different energies, and in this way He is realized impersonally. As the demigod in the sun is a person and is perceived by his all-pervading energy, the sunshine, similarly, the Lord, although in His eternal abode, is perceived by His all-pervading, diffusive energies. The taste of water is the active principle of water. No one likes to drink sea water because the pure taste of water is mixed with salt. Attraction for water depends on the purity of the taste, and this pure taste is one of the energies of the Lord. The impersonalist perceives the presence of the Lord in water by its taste, and the personalist also glorifies the Lord for His kindly supplying water to quench man's thirst. That is the