And,
तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च ।
अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन ॥ १९ ॥
tapāmyahamahaṃ varṣaṃ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca .
amṛtaṃ caiva mṛtyuśca sadasaccāhamarjuna .. 19 ..
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As the sun I give heat by some powerful rays; by certain rays I send forth rain; and having sent it forth I take it back by certain rays during eight months, and again send it forth in the rainy season. I am the immortality of the gods (devas) and the death of the mortals. I am existence, (the manifested, the effect), which manifests itself in relation (to the cause); and I am the reverse, the non-existence (the unmanifested, the cause).—Indeed the Lord can never be altogether non-existent; nor (can it be said) that the effect is existence and the cause is non-existence.*
The manifested world of effects is spoken of as ’existence’ and the unmanifested cause as ’non-existence.’ We cannot indeed hold that the Divine essence is non-existence, for then we are driven to nihilism; nor can the cause be spoken of as non-existence, as it is impossible to conceive existence arising out of non-existence; for the sruti itself says, ‘How can existence come out of non-existence?’—Chhand, Up. 6
The fruits of interested acts of Vedic ritual.
These men of wisdom who are devoted to Me, adoring Me by the sacrifices mentioned above, leading lives of retirement in various forms described above and regarding Me as One or as different,—they reach Myself according to their knowledge. But as regards those who are ignorant and who long for objects of desire,