The glories of the Absolute [of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person].
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person says:
Intelligence, knowledge, liberation from doubt and illusion, indulgence, truthfulness, self-control and stillness, joys and sorrows, birth and death, fear and fearlessness, non-violence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, glory and opprobrium, all from Me alone proceed.
The seven great sages, the four others [Sanaka, Sananda, Sanatana and Sanat Kumaras], who were before them, and the Manus [the fathers of mankind] were born of my mind; all beings in this world are their descendants. Who, in truth, knows this glory and this power, mine, serves Me with pure devotion, without sharing; this is a definite fact. From all the worlds, spiritual and material, I am the source, from Me everything emanates. The sages who know this truth perfectly, with all their hearts serve Me and adore Me. My pure devotees always absorb their thoughts in Me, and their life abandon it to Me. They enlighten each other on My Person, talk about Me endlessly, and thereby find immense satisfaction and joy. Those who always serve and adore Me with love and devotion, I give them intelligence through which they will be able to come to Me. Living in their hearts, and full of compassion for them, I dispel, with the luminous torch of knowledge, the darkness born of ignorance.
At the end of Brahma's life, all created manifestation returns to My energy, and when I desire it, by My own power, I create anew. Learn from My lips that it is My energies alone that are working everywhere. Take a pot of earth: you have nothing other than an assembly of earth, water, fire, air and ether. And whether the jar is new, old or broken, the same elements still make it up. When created, the pot is but a combination of earth, water, fire, air, and ether; throughout its existence, its components remain the same, and when it is destroyed, annihilated, its ingredients will be preserved in various sectors of material energy. In the same vein, during the creation of this cosmos, while its manifestation lasts, as well as after its destruction, it is My energy, always the same, which takes on different aspects. And because My energy is not separated from My Person, it must be concluded that I exist in all things.
Likewise, the body of a living being is nothing other than an assembly of five elements of dense matter (earth, water, fire, air, ether), and the being embodied in this material condition is itself a fragment of My Person. If the soul finds itself imprisoned in this way, it is because it harbors an erroneous conception of its identity, and takes itself for the supreme beneficiary. It is this false ego in the living being that compels him to know incarceration within material existence. As the Supreme and Absolute Truth, I personally situate Myself beyond the living being, as well as his material