thou pervadest all things, and thou knowest all things.  Thou makest a body for thyself, and bearest that body.  Thou art an embodied Being.  Thou enjoyest a body, and thou art the refuge of all embodied creatures.  Thou art the creator of the life-breaths, thou possessest the life-breaths, thou art one that is endued with life-breaths, thou art the giver of the life-breaths, and thou art the refuge of all beings endued with life-breaths.  Thou art that Adhyatma which is the refuge of all righteous persons that are devoted to Yoga-meditation and conversant with the Soul and that are solicitous of avoiding rebirth.  Verily, thou art that Supreme Lord who is identical with that refuge.  Thou art the giver unto all creatures of whatever ends become theirs, fraught with happiness or misery.  Thou art he that ordains all created beings to birth and death.  Thou art the puissant Lord who grants success to Rishis crowned with success in respect of the fruition of their wishes.  Having created all the worlds beginning with Bhu, together with all the denizens of heaven, that upholdest and cherishest them all, distributing thyself into thy well-known forms numbering Eight.[81] From thee flows everything.  Upon thee rests all things.  All things, again, disappear in thee.  Thou art the sole object that is Eternal.  Thou art that region of Truth which is sought by the righteous and regarded by them as the highest.  Thou art that cessation of individual existence which Yogins seek.  Thou art that Oneness which is sought by persons conversant with the soul.  Brahma and the Siddhas expounding the mantras have concealed thee in a cave for preventing the deities and Asuras and human beings from beholding thee.[82] Although thou residest in the heart, yet thou are concealed.  Hence, stupefied by thee, deities and Asuras and human beings are all unable to understand thee, O Bhava, truly and in all thy details.  Unto those persons that succeed in attaining to thee after having cleansed themselves by devotion, thou showest thyself of thy own accord, O thou that residest in all hearts.[83] By knowing thee one can avoid both death and rebirth.  Thou art the highest object of knowledge.  By knowing thee no higher object remains for one to know.  Thou art the greatest object of acquisition.  The person that is truly wise, by acquiring thee, thinks that there is no higher object to acquire.  By attaining to thee that art exceedingly subtile and that art the highest object of acquisition, the man of wisdom becomes immortal and immutable.  The followers of the Sankhya system, well conversant with their own philosophy and possessing a knowledge of the attributes (of Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas) and of those called the topics of enquiry,—­those learned men who transcend the destructible by attaining to a knowledge of the subtile or indestructible—­succeed, by knowing thee, in freeing themselves from all bonds.  Persons conversant with the Vedas regard thee as the one object of knowledge, which has been expounded