Sanskrit
रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभाऽस्मि शशिसूर्ययोः । प्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु ॥ ८ ॥
raso'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśisūryayoḥ praṇavaḥ sarvavedeṣu śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṃ nṛṣu
Translation
I the sapidity in waters, O son of Kuntî, I the radiance in moon and sun; the Word of Power in all the Vedas, sound in ether, and virility in men;
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Verses 8-11 run a rhetorical device the Gita reuses at length in chapter 10’s vibhuti-yoga list of divine manifestations — Krishna identifying himself not as a thing among things but as the defining quality within a series of things: taste in water, radiance in sun and moon, sound in ether, the syllable Om in scripture. It is a different register than verses 4-7’s abstract cosmology: instead of describing the mechanism, Krishna makes it experientially locatable in things Arjuna already perceives daily.