An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c9.32

c9.32

Brahman is one and formless, and consists of intelligence. He is the source of scripture (*śruti*) and is therefore omniscient; and he is to be known only from scripture. He is the material as well as the final cause of the universe. He has no purpose to fulfil, and is therefore inactive: his seeming activity is sport. The world, though produced from Brahman from time to time, has had no beginning and will have no end. Scripture also is eternal. The gods exist, and they feed in their own divine way on the sacrifices which the Veda enjoins.