अहं क्रतुरहं यज्ञः स्वधाऽहमहमौषधम्।मंत्रोऽहमहमेवाज्यमहमग्निरहं हुतम् ॥

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

• 9.11Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of all beings.
• 9.12They are possessed of the deceitful nature of demons and undivine beings, filled with vain hopes, vain actions, and vain knowledge that is senseless.
• 9.13But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a single-minded devotion, knowing Me as the imperishable source of all beings.
• 9.14Always glorifying Me, striving, firm in their vows, prostrating themselves before Me, they worship Me with steadfast devotion.
• 9.15Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the All-Faced, as one, distinct, and manifold.

• 9.16I am Kratu; I am Yajna; I am the offering to the manes; I am the medicinal herbs and all plants; I am the Mantra; I am also the ghee or melted butter; I am the fire; I am the oblation.

• 9.17I am the father of this world, the mother, the dispenser of the fruits of actions, and the grandfather; the one thing to be known, the purifier, the sacred monosyllable (Om), and also the Rik, Sama, and Yajur Vedas.
• 9.18I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the shelter, the friend, the origin, the dissolution, the foundation, the treasure-house, and the imperishable seed.
• 9.19As the sun, I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also death, existence and non-existence, O Arjuna.
• 9.20The knowers of the three Vedas, the drinkers of Soma, purified of all sins, worshipping Me through sacrifices, pray for the way to heaven; they reach the holy world of the Lord of the gods and enjoy the divine pleasures of the gods in heaven.
• 9.21They, having enjoyed the vast heaven, enter the world of mortals when their merit is exhausted; thus abiding by the injunctions of the three (Vedas) and desiring objects of desires, they attain to the state of coming and going.
• 9.22For those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no one else, for those ever-united, I secure what they have not already possessed and preserve what they already possess.
• 9.23Even those devotees who, endowed with faith, worship other gods, worship Me alone, O Arjuna, but by the wrong method.
• 9.24For I alone am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in reality, and thus they return to this mortal world.
• 9.25The worshippers of the gods go to them; the ancestor-worshippers go to the manes; the worshippers of the deities who preside over the elements go to them; but My devotees come to Me.

eva

also

aham

I

hutam

the act offering

ājyam

clarified butter

agniḥ

fire

svadhā

oblation

kratuḥ

Vedic ritual

mantraḥ

Vedic mantra

yajñaḥ

sacrifice

auṣhadham

medicinal herb