偈颂 9.199.19.29.39.49.59.69.79.89.99.109.119.129.139.149.159.169.179.189.199.209.219.229.239.249.259.269.279.289.299.309.319.329.339.34

(As the sun) I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also death, existence and non-existence, O Arjuna.

I give heat; I hold back the rain and send it forth. I am immortality and also death, being and non-being, Arjuna.

Krishna names himself in pairs of opposites. He gives heat; he holds back the rain and sends it. He is immortality and also death, being and non-being, sat and asat. The verse refuses to separate the divine from any part of reality. Both the gentle and the terrible, the life-giving and the destructive, come from the same source. Traditions interpret being and non-being in various ways, as the manifest and unmanifest, or the gross and subtle, but all see a totality that includes every contrast.