tapāmyahamahaṁ varşaṁ nigṛhņāmyutsṛjāmi ch
amṛtam chiva mṛtyuśca sadasaccāhamarjuna
Surya roop mein Arjun! Tapta hun mai,
Jal kheech kar varsha karta hun mai.
Mrityu va amrit ye hon mujh se hee,
Sat ya asat bhav mere sabhi.
It is I who give heat in the form of the sun, I draw the rain and send it forth in the form of water. O Arjun! I am the immortality and death too, existence and non-existence also I am.
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The Govind of the Gita at this point of time is revealing the mystery of His nature with great clarity. The significant words being used by Him in these verses are not indicative of limited, narrow and base ego. In the form of an all pervasive truth principle, this is His real introduction, just and just for the sake of the welfare of the embodied being! There is no other objective involved in it. That by revealing the secret of His nature His divinity will increase and that by not doing so it will decrease; it is definitely not so! If the embodied being is able to understand this, it will certainly end his egoism which is required also; because by being egoistic it is not just possible to understand God, nor can any form of worship by him will be of any purpose. It is, therefore, necessary for us that we understand such inspirations from the Gita and accept them:
The department of the rising and setting of the sun is that of the Supreme. The light of the sun, its brilliance is due to the divine power, the heating power of the sun which draws the water from the ocean, collects it within itself and then prepares it in the form of clouds, and thereafter the clouds in the form of rainfall dropping on the earth, is not in the hands of any scientist, engineer, or an official of the meteorological department. It is the divine power which is functioning in this manner.
The Lord is also immortality and death. Immortality here does not imply the nectar of the gods of heaven; but the state which gives deliverance from the cycle of birth and death, is called nectar! This state is possible only through the Lord. In actuality, nectar is not in the ocean or with the gods; nor elsewhere; that is to be found in the contemplation and meditation of the Lord! The department of death is also His. The union of the divine consciousness with the inert body gives rise to life; and the state of its departure from the body is death.
The Lord is both real and unreal. That Lord is the reality-it is clear; but that He is unreal too-that is a mystery. Whatever is visible is unreal! If one takes it in this manner then it seems that this is the real Lord; and the unreal world. The issue deserves thought! Creation has originated from the Lord; apart from Him it has no existence. Just as the gold ornaments are made of gold and cannot be separated from it, for this reason the form of the ornaments is unreal but ornament is gold only. Similarly the manner in which creation is apparently seen that form is unreal, in its essential truth principle it is the divine.
The mystery even on being absolutely clear, all do not devote themselves to the Lord.