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| <div id="BG919_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="77" link="BG 9.19" link_text="BG 9.19"> | | <div id="BG919_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="77" link="BG 9.19" link_text="BG 9.19"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.19|BG 9.19, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Arjuna, I give heat, and I withhold and send forth the rain. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both spirit and matter are in Me.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.19 (1972)|BG 9.19, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Arjuna, I give heat, and I withhold and send forth the rain. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both spirit and matter are in Me.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>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 ascertain 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 therefore makes no such distinctions. He sees only Kṛṣṇa in everything.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>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 ascertain 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 therefore makes no such distinctions. He sees only Kṛṣṇa in everything.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG91819NewYorkDecember41966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="318" link="Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966"> | | <div id="LectureonBG91819NewYorkDecember41966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="318" link="Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966|Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are living entities. We are endeavoring our energy, applying our energy, to build up all these things, but these materials have no value if I am not there. Just like this America, this land, was lying vacant so long these civilized person from Europe, they did not come here. So by their energy, living entities, the matter has developed. Matter is not prominent. Don't give more importance to the matter. The important is the living entity. And what is this living entity? The living entity is the part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. Therefore He is the cause of the seeds of living entities. Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ jīva-loke sanātanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7|BG 15.7]]).</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966|Lecture on BG 9.18-19 -- New York, December 4, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are living entities. We are endeavoring our energy, applying our energy, to build up all these things, but these materials have no value if I am not there. Just like this America, this land, was lying vacant so long these civilized person from Europe, they did not come here. So by their energy, living entities, the matter has developed. Matter is not prominent. Don't give more importance to the matter. The important is the living entity. And what is this living entity? The living entity is the part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. Therefore He is the cause of the seeds of living entities. Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ jīva-loke sanātanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7 (1972)|BG 15.7]]).</p> |
| <p>Tapāmy aham. Now, what is this sun. Tapāmi. He is giving heat? Who is heating? The Lord is heating. You cannot manufacture a sun. Tapāmy aham ahaṁ varṣam. And the rain. You cannot regulate rain. That is in God's hand or God's management. If there is no rain, you cannot make rain, or if there is over-rain, you cannot stop. Tapāmy aham ahaṁ varṣaṁ nigṛhṇāmy utsṛjāmi: "And if I want, I can give trouble to the whole population of the world." Nigṛhṇāmy utsṛjāmi. He can... "If I want to annihilate them, in a moment I can do that." Amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca sad asac ca aham arjuna. Amṛtam: "If I like, I can give you eternal life." If we approach God, eternal life, there is guaranteed. And if we don't like, then go on, the cycle of birth and death. Mṛtyuṁ cāmṛtaṁ ca sad asac ca aham arjuna. Sat. Sat means the spiritual energy, and asat means this material energy. "Because both energies are God energies, therefore these energies are also God, Arjuna." This description is given by Lord Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna about His personal position, God's position. So we have to learn from Bhagavad-gītā directly spoken by the Supreme Lord and accept it and do accordingly. That is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We think of Kṛṣṇa: He is everything, or God is everything. So let us become submissive and prosecute this, the process of devotional service. That is the way of happiness. That is the way of perfection.</p> | | <p>Tapāmy aham. Now, what is this sun. Tapāmi. He is giving heat? Who is heating? The Lord is heating. You cannot manufacture a sun. Tapāmy aham ahaṁ varṣam. And the rain. You cannot regulate rain. That is in God's hand or God's management. If there is no rain, you cannot make rain, or if there is over-rain, you cannot stop. Tapāmy aham ahaṁ varṣaṁ nigṛhṇāmy utsṛjāmi: "And if I want, I can give trouble to the whole population of the world." Nigṛhṇāmy utsṛjāmi. He can... "If I want to annihilate them, in a moment I can do that." Amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca sad asac ca aham arjuna. Amṛtam: "If I like, I can give you eternal life." If we approach God, eternal life, there is guaranteed. And if we don't like, then go on, the cycle of birth and death. Mṛtyuṁ cāmṛtaṁ ca sad asac ca aham arjuna. Sat. Sat means the spiritual energy, and asat means this material energy. "Because both energies are God energies, therefore these energies are also God, Arjuna." This description is given by Lord Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna about His personal position, God's position. So we have to learn from Bhagavad-gītā directly spoken by the Supreme Lord and accept it and do accordingly. That is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We think of Kṛṣṇa: He is everything, or God is everything. So let us become submissive and prosecute this, the process of devotional service. That is the way of happiness. That is the way of perfection.</p> |
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| :prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṁ | | :prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṁ |
| :nidhānaṁ bījam avyayam | | :nidhānaṁ bījam avyayam |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.18|BG 9.18]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.18 (1972)|BG 9.18]]) |
| <p>"Everything is I. I am death as well as I am life."</p> | | <p>"Everything is I. I am death as well as I am life."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.</p> |
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| :amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca | | :amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca |
| :sad asac cāham arjuna | | :sad asac cāham arjuna |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.19|BG 9.19]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.19 (1972)|BG 9.19]]) |
| <p>He is sat and asat both.</p> | | <p>He is sat and asat both.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Cause and effect.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Cause and effect.</p> |
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| :te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam | | :te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam |
| :aśnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān | | :aśnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.20|BG 9.20]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.20 (1972)|BG 9.20]]) |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Svar-gatim, those who are desiring to go to the Svarga-loka, heavenly planet, they go. They go...</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Svar-gatim, those who are desiring to go to the Svarga-loka, heavenly planet, they go. They go...</p> |
| <p>Dr. Patel: And come back.</p> | | <p>Dr. Patel: And come back.</p> |