Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself.
Religion
It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".
Nature, Ego, Perception
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