अहं क्रतुरहं यज्ञः स्वधाहमहमौषधम् ।
मंत्रोऽहमहमेवाज्यमहमग्निरहं हुतम् ॥
पिताहमस्य जगतो माता धाता पितामहः ।
वेद्यं पवित्रमोङ्कार ऋक्साम यजुरेव च ॥
Transliteration
ahaṃ kratur-ahaṃ yajñāḥ svadhāham aham auṣadham |
mantro’ham aham-evājyam aham-agnir-ahaṃ hutam || 16 ||
pitāham-asya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ |
vedyaṃ pavitram oṃkāra ṛk-sāma yajur-eva ca || 17 ||
Translation
I am the ritual I am the sacrifice, I am the oblation. I am the herb. Hymns and I am also the ghee(clarified butter). I am the fire and also the offering (made therein). Father am I of the world, the mother, the supporter, the grandsire, I am the one to be known as the Pure, the AUM and also Rig, Sama, and the Yajus as well.
Purport
In earlier Shloka Bhagvan Shri Krishna explained two different views of the same reality. Some who attain high spiritual knowledge see only one Shri Krishna who is the entire Universe himself and thus perceives him just one and only. But some others or in fact majority perceive quantifiable entities.
In these Shlokas, Bhagvan Shri Krishna gives further explanation of how unity exists in diverse existence. However we perceive different objects, but there exists a unity among all. The personal potency of Bhagvan Shri Krishna exists in every single object. Here Shri Krishan takes the example of Yajna. We see different objects, like Ghee, oblation, herb, offerings, etc, but all these objects exist by unified potency of Bhagvan Shri Krishna.
