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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 87: Verses 17-20
People live (justify their existence only) if they are obedient to You (follow Your commandments) or else they (simply) breathe like bellows. You are that (creative principle) by whose grace (interpenetrated by which) Mahattattva (the principle of cosmic intelligence), Ahankara (the cosmic ego) etc., (though insentient) have brought into being this egg-like universe (including this microcosm); (nay:) it is You who animate (all) the (five) sheaths (with which the soul is invested), assuming the shape of those sheaths and permeating them (as their material Cause), although (as a matter of tact) You are the ultimate Substance underlying all (phenomena; beyond the gross as well as the subtle, that which remains (after eveIything else has disappered) as the Reality. Out of the (many) paths (leading to God-realization) chalked out by the seers (of old), men of goss vision (lit, having their eyes blinded with gravel) contemplate on (Brahma as presiding the spiritual centre called Manipuraka located in) the abdomen; while the sons of the sage Aruna (who are possessed of a subtler vision) contemplate on (Brahma manifested in the centre known as the Anahata Cakra located in) the cavity of the heart, the organ from which the veins and arteries branch out (in various directions), Thence proceeds upwards, 0 infinite Lord, the artery known as Susumna (the supreme effulgent channel leading to You) to (the crown of) the head (the seat of the spiritual centre known as the Sahasrara).
Reaching this path men do not fail again into the jaws of death here, Entering as it were the diverse types of living organisms evolved by yourself, through (as a matter of fact) You already existed in them as their. (material) Cause, and assuming those forms, You shine (through them) as high or low like fire (which through undifferentiated in itself, assumes diverse shapes according to the shape of the fire-wood). Therefore, men of unclouded judgment, who do not expect any (wordly or other-worldly) reward for their acts, recognize Your true nature as the one immutable. undifferentiated and uniform Substance in those unreal toms. The Vedas speak. of Purusa (the individual sou dwelling in these bodies shaped (as a result of its own deeds) by itself-though, as a matter of tact, it is not limited by anything which is of the nature of a cause or an effect as a part made as it were out of You, the Wielder of all potencies. Having thus determined the nature of the Purusa, the wise on this earth, full of faith, adore Your feet, at which (all) acts enjoined by the Vedas are offered and which (as a result of such offering) put an end to rebirth (for all time).
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