The universe is dependent on the Real. God is the dynamic cause of the universe. The true has also a practical value. The existence of Isvara or the Overlord of the universe has to be admitted, and this hypothesis is indispensable to account for life. Isvara 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. All motion and activity is directed by Isvara, 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. His Vedanta is a synthesis of all philosophies as well as a transcendence of them in a philosophy of the non-dual Consciousness which sublimates all existences in its supreme essence. True religion is the practice of this philosophy, and Sivananda s religion is a religion of the universe, applicable to all human beings, relative to their positions in the scale of the development of their consciousness.