All existents are subordinate to it. The universe is dependent on the Real. God is the dynamic cause of the universe. The existence of Ishvara or the Overlord of the universe has to be admitted, and this hypothesis is indispensable to account for life. Ishvara is the indwelling and animating principle of the universe.
Reality is inaccessible to mere human thinking.
The Absolute is directly realised in spiritual intuition and being. The Absolute is the only reality, and its essence is Consciousness. The universe and the individuals are its manifestations or appearances. All motion and activity is directed by Ishvara, the final cause, who determines the universe by the law of His being to which the universe with its contents is organically related. The Vedanta of Swami Sivananda accepts all philosophical theories, but with reservations, as different sides of truth, and not the whole truth.