One who knows Brahman as non-existent becomes truly non-existent. But one who knows Brahman as existing — those who know that one know him as real. This is the bodily self of the prior sheath. Now come the subsidiary enquiries: Does anyone at all go to that world after death without having known it? Or does anyone reach that world after death having known it? Brahman desired: may I become many, may I be born. It practised austerity. Having performed that austerity, it created all this — whatever exists. Having created it, Brahman entered into it. Entering in, it became both the manifest and the beyond, both the defined and the indefinable, both the supported and the unsupported, both awareness and its absence, both truth and untruth — and what exists became truth. Whatever is here, that they call truth.