Learn·Chapter 9 · The royal knowledge, the royal secret·Verse 19 of 34
Bhagavad Gītā 9.19, word by word
BG 9.19
तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च। अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन
tapāmyaham ahaṁ varṣhaṁ nigṛihṇāmyutsṛijāmi cha amṛitaṁ chaiva mṛityuśh cha sad asach chāham arjuna
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In English
I am the heat of the sun, I release and withhold the rain. I am death and immortality; I am being and non-being.
Translated by Shri Purohit Swami
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.
Translated by Swami Sivananda
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