Chapter 1: Shaunaka and other sages ask questions of Suta
That from which the creation, sustenance and dissolution of the universe happens,
since that is present in all real substances and absent in the unreal,
that is not inert, but aware, that is not subservient, but self-illumined,
that who has imparted the knowledge of the Vedas, and not Brahma,
that about which even great sages get deluded,
and just like one sees a mirage in a desert, one sees this universe made of three gunas real in that, even though it is not,
that which at all times and completely is free of maya and its effects through its light,
we meditate upon that reality, that supreme self || 1 ||