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This is that truth: just as from a blazing fire thousands of sparks of the same nature leap forth, so too do countless beings and forms arise from the imperishable Brahman—and return to it there.
HinduPoetryCreationGodSanskrit
Mundaka Upanishad 2.1.1

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