This also happens because of its having been ordained.  An auspicious and beautiful woman, O Sakra, is seen to pass her life in misery.  Similarly, an ugly woman with every inauspicious mark is seen to pass her days in great happiness.  That we have now become so is not due to any act of ours, O Sakra!  That thou art now so is not due, O wielder of the thunderbolt, to any act of thine.  Thou hast not done anything, O thou of hundred sacrifices, in consequence of which thou art now enjoying this affluence.  Nor have I done anything in consequence of which I have now been divested of affluence, Affluence and its reverse come one after another.  I now behold thee blazing with splendour, endued with prosperity, possessed of beauty, placed at the head of all the deities, and thus roaring at me.  This would never be but for the fact of Time standing near after having assailed me.  Indeed, if Time had not assailed me I would have today killed thee with only a blow of my fists notwithstanding the fact of thy being armed with the thunder.  This, however, is not the time for putting forth my prowess.  On the other hand, the time that has come is for adopting a behaviour of peace and tranquillity.  It is Time that establishes all things.  Time works upon all things and leads them to their final consummation.[840] I was the worshipped lord of the Danavas.  Burning all with my energy, I used to roar in strength and pride.  When Time hath assailed even myself, who is there whom he will not assail?  Formerly, O chief of the deities, singly I bore the energy of all the twelve illustrious Adityas with thyself amongst them.  It was I that used to bear up water and then to shower it as rain, O Vasava!  It was I that used to give both light and heat unto the three worlds.  It was I that used to protect and it was I that used to destroy.  It was I that gave and it was I that took.  It was I that used to bind and it was I that used to unbind.  In all the worlds I was the one puissant master.  That sovereign sway which I had, O chief of the celestials, is no more.  I am now assailed by the forces of Time.  Those things, therefore, are no longer seen to shine in me.  I am not the doer (of acts that are apparently done by me).  Thou art not the doer (of acts done by thee).  None else, O lord of Sachi, is the doer (of those acts).  It is Time, O Sakra, that protects or destroys all things.[841] Persons conversant with the Vedas say that Time (Eternity) is Brahma.  The fortnights and months are his body.  That body is invested with days and nights as its robes.  The seasons are his senses.  The year is his mouth.  Some people, in consequence of their superior intelligence, say that all this (the entire universe) should be conceived as Brahma.  The Vedas, however, teach, that the five sheaths that invest the Soul should be regarded as Brahma.  Brahma is deep and inaccessible like a vast ocean of waters.  It hath been said that it hath neither beginning nor end, and that it