1.18. Superior of superiors

[...] Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad VI.8

He has nothing to achieve for Himself, nor has He any organ of action. No one is seen equal or superior to Him. His great power alone is described in the Vedas to be of various kinds, and His knowledge, strength and action are described as inherent in Him. No one in the world is His master, nor has anybody any control over Him. There is no sign by which He can be inferred. He is the cause of all, and the ruler of individual souls. He has no parent, nor is there any one who is His lord. May the Supreme Being, who spontaneously covers Himself with the products of Nature, just as a spider^[1] does with the threads drawn from its own navel, grant us absorption in Brahman! God, who is one only, is hidden in all beings. He is all-pervading, and is the inner self of all creatures. He presides over all actions, and all beings reside in Him. He is the witness, and He is the Pure Consciousness free from the three Guṇas of Nature. Those wise men, who ever feel in their own hearts the presence of Him who is the one ruler of the inactive many, and who makes the one seed manifold–to them belongs eternal happiness, and to none else^[2]