The ultimate truth

When brahma requested to the lord,--let me not be puffed up with pride, thinking that I am immune from etc., so long as  I remain engaged in Your service in the form of creating living and, unperplexed in mind, classify the Jivas(according to their natural characteristics and past actions), then The lord said to brahma,--Do you receive the most esoteric knowledge, as well as the realization, which is going to be imparted by Me, about Myself, as also the truth of Devotion and  all that is accessory to it. By My grace you shall have true knowledge about  Me, as to how great I am, what is My essential character, in how many forms do I manifest Myself, what virtues do I possess and what are My doings. Prior to this creation I alone existed and that too in my absolute state. Other than Me there was nothing gross or subtle, nor the cause of both, viz., Prakrti(Primordial Matter). I exist even after creation as well as in the form of this phenomenal world and I am also that which remains(after all this has disappeared). That which makes it possible for something inexplicable to appear in My Being(as apart from Me) without any corresponding reality, just like the illusion of a second moon, and which obscures My being(even though I am present everywhere), like the presence of the planet Rahu(which has a shadowy form) in the midst of the other luminaries, should be regarded as My Maya(deluding potency). Even as the gross elements((earth, water etc.) may be said to have entered (the bodies of) all living beings, both great and small, (made up as they are of those very elements) after their creation, and they can as well as be said not to have entered them (in that they already inhered in them as their material cause), similarly I can be said to have entered the bodies of these living beings as their indwelling Spirit (when they are viewed materially), and I can equally be said not to have entered them (when they are viewed spiritually, there being no other reality than the Spirit, i.e., Myself) He who is eager to know the truth of the Spirit should enquire into and ascertain that Reality alone which is proved to exist everywhere and at all times—whether you argue by the negative process, excluding everything else as not that, not that, or by the positive method of affirming everything as that. Establish yourself fully in this doctrine of Mine through perfect concentration of mind. By doing so you shall never be confounded (fall a prey to egotism etc.) while creating the diverse forms of life in the course of the various kalpas.