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Taking a break from this, having finished the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Not exactly light reading. Interesting nonetheless.

When, however, the Whole has become one's very self, then who is there for one to see and by what means?

"May the worlds forsake anyone who considers the worlds to reside in something other than his self."

And so people say, "A person here consists simply of desire." A man resolves in accordance iwth his desire, acts in accordance with his resolve and turns out to be in accordance with his action... That is of course the man who desires.

So when a man venerates another deity thinking, 'He is one, and I am another', he does not understand.

This is brahman's super-creation. It is a super-creation because he created the gods, who are superior to him, and, being a mortal himself, he created the immortals. Anyone who knows this stands within this super-creation of his.