1.19. Eternal of the eternals

He is the eternal among the eternal and the intelligent among all that are intelligent. Though one, He grants the desires of the many. One is released from all fetters on realizing Him, the cause of all, who is comprehensible through philosophy and religious discipline.

[...] Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad VI.14

The sun does not shine there; neither the moon, nor the stars. There these lightnings shine not -how then this fire? Because He shines, everything shines after Him. By His light all this shines. The one destroyer of ignorance in the midst of this universe, He alone is the fire which is stationed in water. Realizing Him alone one overcomes death. There is no other path for emancipation. He is the creator of everything as well as the knower of everything. He is His own source, He is all-knowing, and He is the destroyer of time. He is the repository of all good qualities, and the master of all sciences. He is the controller of Matter and Spirit, and the lord of the Guṇas. He is the cause of liberation from the cycle of birth and death, and of bondage which results in its continuance.^[1]