his own acts, Sanatkumara, and in whom all creatures merge when the universal dissolution comes, is the Mind of all creatures and is called by the name of Pradyumna.  From Him (i.e., Pradyumna), arises He who is the Creator, and who is both Cause and Effect.  From this last, everything, viz., the mobile and immobile universe, takes its rise.  This one is called Aniruddha.  He is otherwise called Isana, and He is manifest in all acts.[1831] That illustrious one, viz., Vasudeva, who is called Kshetrajna, and who is freed from attributes, should, O king of kings, be known as the puissant Sankarshana, when he takes birth as Jiva.[1832] From Sankarshana arises Pradyumna who is called ’He that is born as Mind.’  From Pradyumna is He who is Aniruddha.  He is Consciousness, He is Iswara (Supreme Lord).  It is from me, that the entire mobile and immobile universe springs.  It is from me, O Narada, that the indestructible and destructible, the existent and the non-existent, flow.  They that are devoted to me enter into me and become emancipate.  I am known as Purusha.  Without acts, I am the Twenty-fifth.  Transcending attributes, I am entire and indivisible.  I am above all pairs of opposite attributes and freed from all attachments.  This, O Narada, thou wilt fail to understand.  Thou beholdest me as endued with a form.  In a moment, if the wish arises, I can dissolve this form.  I am the Supreme Lord and the Preceptor of the universe.  That which thou beholdest of me, O Narada, is only an illusion of mine.  I now seem to be endued with the attributes of all created things.  Thou art not competent to know me.  I have disclosed to thee duly my quadruple form.  I am, O Narada, the Doer, I am Cause, and I am Effect.  I am the sum-total of all living creatures.  All living creatures have their refuge in me.  Let not the thought be thine that thou hast seen the Kshetrajna.  I pervade all things.  O Brahmana, and am the Jiva-Soul of all creatures.  When the bodies of all creatures, however, are destroyed, I am not destroyed.  Those highly blessed men who, having won ascetic success, become wholly devoted to me, become freed from the attributes of both Rajas and Tamas and succeeds, on that account, in entering me, O great ascetic.  He who is called Hiranyagarbha, who is the beginning of the world, who has four faces, who cannot be understood with the aid of Nirukta, who is otherwise called Brahman, who is an eternal deity, is employed in attending to many of my concerns.  The deity Rudra, born of my wrath, is sprung from my forehead.  Behold, the eleven Rudras are swelling (with might) on the right side of my body.  The twelve Adityas are on the left side of my body.  Behold, the eight Vasus, those foremost of deities, are in my front, and see, Nasatya and Dasra, those two celestial physicians (Aswini Kumars), are in my rear.  Behold also in my body all the Prajapatis and behold the seven Rishis also.  Behold also the Vedas, and all the Sacrifices numbering by hundreds, the Amrita (nectar),