Ever singing My glories, prostrating themselves before Me, greatly determined in their spiritual endeavours, these magnanimous souls eternally adore Me with love and devotion.

Others, who cultivate knowledge, worship Me either as the one existence, or in the diversity of beings and things, or in My universal form.

But it is I who am the rite and the sacrifice, the oblation to the ancestors, the medicinal herb and the mantra. I am both the butter and the fire and the offering. Of this universe I am the Father, the Mother, the Sustainer and the Forefather. I am the Object of Knowledge, the Purifier and the syllable Om. I am also the Rk, the Sama and the Yajur. I am the Goal, the Sustainer, the Master, the Witness, the Abode, the Refuge and the dearest Friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the Base of all things, the Resting Place and the Eternal Seed.

I control heat, rain and drought. I am Immortality, as well as Death personified. Both being and non-being are in Me. It is indirectly that they worship Me, the men who study the Vedas (the original holy scriptures) and drink soma (drink of immortality), thus seeking to gain the planets of delight. They are reborn on the planet of Indra (the king of the heavens, from the upper region of our galaxy), where they enjoy the pleasures of celestial beings.

When they have enjoyed these heavenly pleasures, when their merits have been exhausted, they return to this mortal Earth. Fragile happiness, therefore, is the only fruit they reap after following the principles of the Vedas. But those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My absolute form, I fill their lacks and preserve what they possess. Any oblation that man sacrifices with faith to the celestial beings is actually meant for Me alone, but offered without knowledge.

For, I am the sole Beneficiary and the sole Object of the sacrifice. Now, those who ignore My true, absolute nature, fall back. Those who worship the celestial beings will be reborn among the celestial beings, among the spectres and other spirits those who live in their worship, among the ancestors the worshippers of the ancestors, in the same way, it is with Me that My devotees will live.

Let one offer Me, with love and devotion, a leaf, a flower, a fruit, some water, and this offering, I will accept it.

Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you sacrifice and lavish, whatever austerity you practice, let it be in order to offer it to Me. Thus, you will free yourself from the consequences of your acts, all of them, virtuous or guilty. Through this principle of renunciation, you will be freed and come to Me. I do not envy, I do not favour anyone, towards all I am impartial. But whoever serves Me with devotion lives in Me; he is a friend to Me, as I am his friend.

Even if he commits the worst acts, anyone engaged in devotional service should be seen as a holy man, for he is on the perfect path.