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Śrī Īśopaniṣad
TRANSLATION
Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one must not accept other things, knowing well to Whom they belong.
PURPORT
The Vedic knowledge is infallible because it comes down through the perfect discipline succession of spiritual masters beginning with the Lord Himself. The Vedic knowledge is received from the transcendental sources, and the first word was spoken by the Lord Himself. The words spoken by the Lord are called  apauruṣeya , not delivered by any person of the mundane world. A living being of the mundane world has four defects, which are: 1. that he must commit mistakes, 2. he must sometimes be illusioned, 3. he must try to cheat others, and 4. he is endowed with imperfect senses. With these four principles of imperfection one cannot deliver perfect information in the matter of all-pervading knowledge. The  Vedas  are not known like that. The Vedic knowledge was originally imparted into the heart of Brahmā the first created living being, and Brahmā in his turn disseminated the knowledge to his sons and disciples, who have continued the process down through history.
The Lord being  pūrṇam , or all-perfect, there is no chance of His being subjected to the laws of material Nature, while the living entities and inanimate objects are all controlled by the laws of Nature, and thus, ultimately, by the potency of the Lord. This  Īśopaniṣad  is a part of the  Yajur Veda , and as such it contains information as to the proprietorship of all things that exist within the universe.
This point is confirmed by the  Bhagavad-gītā , in the Seventh Chapter, where  parā  and  aparā prakṛti  are discussed: The elements of Nature—earth, fire, water, air, sky, mind, intelligence