The Supreme Lord (Bhagavān, to Brahmā)

This much alone is to be inquired into by one seeking the truth of the Self: that which, through both presence and absence (positive and negative reasoning), exists everywhere and at all times.

Just as the great elements have entered into created beings high and low, yet have not entered them, so too am I present within those beings and yet not within them.

Hold firmly to this conclusion with supreme absorption, and you will never at any time be deluded amid the cycles and variations of creation.

I alone existed in the beginning; there was nothing else, neither the manifest nor the unmanifest, nor anything beyond. I too am this that now exists, and whatever remains afterward, that too am I.

That which appears to exist apart from the Reality, yet has no existence in the Self — know that to be the illusory power (māyā) of the Self, like a reflection of light, like darkness.