I Am Immortality And Death!
I am the ritual, I am the sacrifice, I am the offering, I am the herb, I am the mantra, I am the clarified butter, I am the fire, and I am the oblation.
I am the supporter of the universe, the father, the mother, and the grandfather. I am the object of knowledge, the sacred syllable "OM", and also the Rig, the Yajur, and the Sama Vedas.
I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the refuge, the friend, the origin, the dissolution, the foundation, the substratum, and the immutable seed. I give heat. I send, as well as withhold the rain.
I am immortality as well as death. I am also both the Eternal and the temporal, O Arjuna.
Krishna says in specific terms what He is. He is the creation of the act, the actor and the action. He is the fire to which the sacrifices are made, He is also the offering and He is the sacrifice as well. He is the seer, the seen and the seeing, all in one.
He tells Arjuna, everything that we do, everything that we see, everything that we feel, anything and everything that we know is because of Him. He says everything has come from Him. He is the seed of everything. Everything that we see is Parāśakti or universal energy. This is Krishna's message here.
Great masters lived in this realization. Ramana, Ramakrishna, Sadashiva Brahmendra, Raghavendra and many masters lived in this consciousness of being one with the universal consciousness. Many people could not relate to the experience of these masters or to the expression of their experience; so they considered these masters mad.