14 Si Isopanisad
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 disciplie succession of spiritual) masters |
beginning with the Lord Ilimself. 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) apauruseya, not delivered by any person of the
mundane world. A living being of the mundane world has four
defeets, 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 Brahma the first created living being, and Brahma in his
turn disseminated the knowledge to his sons and disciples, who
have continued the process down through history.

The Lord being pirnam, 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 [Sopanisad is a part of the Yajur Veda, and as such
it contains’ information as to the propriclorship of all things
that exist within the universe.

This point is confirmed by the Bhagavad-gita, in the Seventh
Chapter, where para and apard pralrti are discussed: The
clements of Nature—carth, fire, water, air, sky, mind, intelligence
