Bhagavad Gita 9.19 is Chapter 9, Verse 19, in Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga (Royal Knowledge). Below are the Sanskrit text, a transliteration, a plain-English translation and an explanation.
tapāmy aham ahaṁ varṣaṁ nigṛhṇāmy utsṛjāmi ca amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca sad asac cāham arjuna
"I give heat, I send and withhold rain. I am immortality and I am death. I am being and non-being, O Arjuna."
What This Means:
Krishna controls nature, heat and rain. He is both immortality AND death, both existence AND non-existence. Every apparent opposite meets in Him.
Going Deeper:
This is the most radical inclusion: even death is Krishna, even non-being. Nothing is outside the Divine, not even what seems to oppose life and being. Everything is contained.
How To Apply This:
Even death is not outside the Divine. Even emptiness, even endings, even non-being. There's nowhere you can go, no state you can be in, that is truly separate from the sacred.
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