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Śri Īśopaniṣad
MANTRA TWELVE
अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽसम्भूतिमुपासते । ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ सम्भूत्यांशताः ॥ १२ ॥
andham tamaḥ praviśanti ye'sambhūtim upāsate tato bhūya iva te tamo ya u sambhūtyām ratāḥ.
andham—ignorance; tamaḥ—darkness; praviśanti—do enter into; ye—those; asambhūtim—demigods; upāsate—do worship; tataḥ—more than that; bhūyaḥ—again; iva—like that; te—who; tamaḥ—darkness; ye—those; u—also; sambhūtyām—in the Absolute; ratāḥ—engaged.
TRANSLATION
Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the Absolute.
PURPORT
The Sanskrit word  asambhūti  means those who have no independent existence.  Sambhūti  is the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Who is absolutely independent of everything. In the  Bhagavad-gītā , the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, positively describes Himself in the following words: “I am the Supreme Cause of the powers delegated to the demigods, the great sages and the mystics. And because these are endowed with limited powers, it is very difficult for them to know how I appear Myself, by My own internal potency, in the form of a man.”
All philosophers and great  ṛṣis , or mystics, try to distinguish the Absolute from the relative by their tiny brain power. However, this can only help them to reach the point of negating