Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 295

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-9 Rāja-vidyā Rāja--guhya Yogaḥ

tapāmyaham ahaṃ varṣaṃ nigṛhṇāmy utsṛjāmi ca | amṛtaṃ caiva mṛtyuśca sadasac-cāham arjuna || 19 || 19. I give heat; I am the rain which I send forth and hold back; I am immortality as well as death, O Arjuna, I am being, and also non-being. Commentary “In the form of fire and the sun it is I alone that send out heat. I alone am both that by which the world lives and dies. Why say more? I am being and non-being.” — Being is that which exists in the present time. Non-being is that which existed in the past and that which may exist in the future, but does not exist at the present moment. The gist is that, “I alone am existent, all the entities exist as My self-expression; all sentient and insentient beings existing in all states, constitute My corporeal manifestation. In this way, they (the wise) adore Me, contemplating upon My essential unity with the entire universe distinguished by names and forms and characterised by varied pluralities — all the diversities being only modalities of My self-expression.” Thus, after illustrating the character of the noble-minded whose only enjoyment consists of the experience of the Lord, and in order to emphasise their greatness, Sri Krishna describes the behaviour of ignorant men who are enrapt by the objects of desire.