Bg. 10.34

मृत्युः सर्वहरश्चाहमुद्भवश्च भविष्यताम् ।
कीर्तिः श्रीर्वाक्च नारीणां स्मृतिर्मेधा धृतिः क्षमा ॥३४॥

mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham
udbhavaś ca bhaviṣyatām
kīrtiḥ śrīr vāk ca nārīṇāṁ
smṛtir medhā dhṛtiḥ kṣamā

mṛtyuḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigmṛtyuḥ

as death; death; death itself; distress or unhappiness; Kaṁsa; the cause of death; the controller of death, Yamarāja; the god of death.—death; sarvaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigsarva

all; all around; all kinds; all kinds of; all over; everyone; everything; for all; for everyone; in all; in all respects; of all; of all demigods; of all kinds; of everyone; of everything.-haraḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigharah

Lord Śiva; Vīrabhadra; who removes.—all-devouring; caplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigca

ca; all these; also; also other bodily forms; also that I have not been able to ask; and (the five gross material elements and the ten acting and knowledge-gathering senses); and; and also; and Devahūti; and for all; and the paraphernalia; as also; as much as; as well; as well as; but; certainly; either; however; indeed; only; or; over and above; respectively; the word ca; this word ca; thus; totally; unlimitedly; verily.—also; ahamplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigaham

as far as I am concerned; as I am; egotism; false ego; false identification (in the bodily concept of life); false identity; I ("I am this body"); I (am); I (Kṛṣṇa); I (Lord Brahmā); I (Lord Śiva); I (Prahlāda Mahārāja); I (the person desiring release from material life); I (Śukadeva Gosvāmī); I; I am; I am everything; I am independent; I am the material body; I myself; I, Lord Kṛṣṇa; I, the Personality of Godhead; I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; I, Yamarāja; me; my existence ("I am something"); my humble self; myself (Brahmājī); Myself; the word aham; the wrong mental conception.—I am; udbhavaḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigudbhavah

appearance; generation; orientation.—generation; caplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigca

ca; all these; also; also other bodily forms; also that I have not been able to ask; and (the five gross material elements and the ten acting and knowledge-gathering senses); and; and also; and Devahūti; and for all; and the paraphernalia; as also; as much as; as well; as well as; but; certainly; either; however; indeed; only; or; over and above; respectively; the word ca; this word ca; thus; totally; unlimitedly; verily.—also; bhaviṣyatāmplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigbhaviṣyatām

of the future.—of the future; kīrtiḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigkīrtiḥ

fame; fame personified; glories; His glories; reputation; the fame; the fame or the glorious activities; whose glorification.—fame; śrīḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigśrīḥ

all opulence; beauty; Lakṣmījī; opulence; opulences; prosperity; the goddess of fortune. vākplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigvāk

a sound vibration; a voice; an elegant manner of speaking; by words; in speaking; my words; Sarasvatī, the goddess of learning; speaking; speech; the faculty of speech; the organ of speech; the sense for speaking; the words; vibration; vocabulary; with sweet words; words.—beautiful speech; caplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigca

ca; all these; also; also other bodily forms; also that I have not been able to ask; and (the five gross material elements and the ten acting and knowledge-gathering senses); and; and also; and Devahūti; and for all; and the paraphernalia; as also; as much as; as well; as well as; but; certainly; either; however; indeed; only; or; over and above; respectively; the word ca; this word ca; thus; totally; unlimitedly; verily.—also; nārīṇāṁplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bignarinam

of women.—of women; smṛtiḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigsmrtih

smṛti-śāstras, which explain the Vedic literatures; constant remembrance; memory; remembrance; remembrance of the activities of my previous life; the memory (of Nārada Muni's instructions); the remembrance; to find one's proper duty; whose remembrance.—memory; medhāplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigmedha

sacrifice; sacrifices.—intelligence; dhṛtiḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigdhṛtiḥ

control; conviction; determination; Dhṛti; endurance; faithfulness; fortitude; patience (even in reverses, a kṣatriya is very grave); patience; such determination.—faithfulness; kṣamāplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigksama

excuse; forgiveness; kindly excuse; please excuse; please pardon.—patience. ¶

I am all-devouring death, and I am the generator of all things yet to be. Among women I am fame, fortune, speech, memory, intelligence, faithfulness and patience. ¶

As soon as a man is born, he dies at every moment. Thus death is devouring every living entity at every moment, but the last stroke is called death itself. That death is Kṛṣṇa. All species of life undergo six basic changes. They are born, they grow, they remain for some time, they reproduce, they dwindle and finally vanish. Of these changes, the first is deliverance from the womb, and that is Kṛṣṇa. The first generation is the beginning of all future activities. ¶

The six opulences listed are considered to be feminine. If a woman possesses all of them or some of them she becomes glorious. Sanskrit is a perfect language and is therefore very glorious. After studying, if one can remember the subject matter, he is gifted with good memory, or smṛti One need not read many books on different subject matters; the ability to remember a few and quote them when necessary is also another opulence. ¶