vedarambha

Who had beheld him as he sprang to being, seen how the boneless One supports the bony? Where is the core of earth, the life, the spirit? Who may approach the man who knows, to ask it? I ask, unknowing, those who know, the sages, as one all ignorant for sake of knowledge,What was that ONE who in the Unborn's image had stablished and fixed firm these worlds'  regions.The, tree whereon the fine Birds eat the sweetness, where they all rest and procreate their offspring .Upon its top they say the fig is luscious: none gained it who known not the Father.

That which hath breath and speed and life and motion lies firmly stablished in the midst of houses.Living, by offerings to the Dead he moved Immortal One, the brother of the mortal.Back, forward goes he, grasped by strength inherent, the Immortal born the brother of the mortal .Ceaseless they move in opposite directions: men mark the one, and fail to mark the other.

Therefore distinct is the Supreme Purusha called the highest Self, the indestructible Lord who,pervading the three worlds, sustains them.

As he transcend the perishable and is even higher than the imperishable, he is declared as the highest Purusha in the world and in the Vedas.

All this world is pervaded by him in his unmanifest aspect; all beings exist in him, but he does not dwell in them.

Nor do beings exist in him (in reality): behold his divine Yoga, supporting all beings, but not dwelling in them, is himelf, the efficient cause of beings.

To those men who worship him alone, thinking of no other, of those ever united, he secures what is not already possessed and preserves what they already possess.

Even those devotees who, endowed with faith, worship other gods, worship him but by the wrong method

The worshippers of the demigods go to them; to the manes go the ancestor-worshippers; to the Deities who preside over the elements go their worshippers; his devotees come to him.

Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith—that (same) faith of his the god

make firm and unflinching. Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that (form), and from it he obtains his desire, these being verily ordained by brahman (alone).