Time is the one creator and destroyer. Nothing else is cause. By encountering any of these, viz.. decline, fall, sovereignty, happiness, misery, birth, and death a learned person neither rejoices nor grieves. You, O Indra, know us. We also, O Vasava, know you.
विद्वान् प्राप्यैवमत्यर्थं न प्रहृष्येन्न च व्यथेत्। त्वमेव हीन्द्र वेत्थास्मान् वेदाहं त्वां च वासव॥