Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10 - Vibhuti Yoga - Sloka 32

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Krishna's Pattabhishekam by Indra on Goverdhana

Sarganaam adih antah cha madhyam cha eva aham arjuna I

Adhyatma vidya vidyanam vadah pravad atam aham II sloka 32

सर्गनां  आदिः अन्तः च मध्यं च एव अहं अर्जुन I

अध्यात्म  विध्या विध्यानां वादः प्रवाद अतां अहं II श्लोक 32

Of created things I am the beginning and the end and also the middle, O Arjuna. Of the sciences I am the science of Self; of those who debate I am reason.

In the twentieth stanza of this chapter the Lord states that he is the beginning, the middle and the end of beings. Here he states that the same is the case in regard to the elements as well. While making an ornament, while maintaining it and while melting it back to its original state, gold the material cause of it, remains ever the same.In this way, Iswara the root cause of the universe is ever himself even while creating, preserving and destroying it.

The science of self is  atma vidya or brahma vidya.  Ignorance vanishes when the Brahman is known. the delusion of birth and death disappears; all problems get solved. The knower of Brahman becomes Brahman. There is no science superior to this. The Lord is himself this atma vidya.

Reason is the most useful instrument possessed by man of enquiry into the real and the non-real into truth and its opposite. Brushing aside all prejudices and predispositions, if reason be faithfully followed it takes the inquirer up to the gateway of intuition. Pure reason is a glory come from god. 

Know the one that is the root of everything. Then truth becomes self evident to you. Put the number one first and then add the zeros; this done, the zeros have their value. Without the number one they are useless. The many get their values from the original number one.  Iswara is the number one; the universe and the beings are the zeros appended to it. 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa