One should acquire that knowledge which if known, all things can be known. The knowledge of mud and of gold will give the knowledge of all pots and pans, as well as of all bracelets and necklaces. The mud and the gold are the truth. Their modifications and transformations are temporary, mere name-forms. So too, the world, like the pot and the bracelet, is just an effect, the cause being ‘sat.’ Sat means ‘is-ness’ is common to all objects; the pot ‘is’, the ‘bracelet’ ‘is’. ‘Is-ness’ becomes manifest through association with the pots and pans, the bracelets and necklaces. The ‘is-ness’ may not be apparent to gross intelligences, for, it needs subtlety to realise it. The rosy colour which is manifested in the rose ‘is,’ even in the absence of the flower. Similarly, the ‘is-ness’that is the Universal character of all objects persists even in the absence of objects. Prior to creation, there was only just this ‘is-ness.’ There was no void then. There was this ‘is-ness’ everywhere! When the ‘is’ was reflected in Maya or Primal Activity, it resulted in Ishvara who partook of that activity to manifest as the Universe with the three elements of Fire, Earth and Wind. All creation is but the permutation and combination of these three. (UV, p. 54)