Text 2011
The Most Confidential Knowledge
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tapāmi —give heat;  aham —I;  aham —I;  varṣam —rain;  nigrhṇāmi —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
Krṣṇa, by His different energies, diffuses heat and light through the agency of electricity and the sun. During summer season it is Krṣṇa 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 Krṣṇa, and Krṣṇa meets us at the end as death. By analyzing all these different energies of Krṣṇa, one can accept that for Krṣṇa there is no distinction between matter and spirit, or, in other words, He is both matter and spirit. In the advanced stage of Krṣṇa consciousness, one does not therefore make such distinctions. He sees Krṣṇa 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.
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त्रैविद्या मां सोमपाः पूतपापा यज्ञैरिष्ट्वा स्वर्गतिं प्रार्थयन्ते । ते पुण्यमासाद्य सुरेन्द्रलोक- मश्नन्ति दिव्यान्दिवि देवभोगान् ॥२०॥
trai-vidyā māṁ soma-pāḥ pūta-pāpā yajñair iṣṭvā svargatiṁ prārthayante te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam aśnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān