Adhikarana VII — The Lord is one though manifesting

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Adhikarana VII — The Lord is one though manifesting

in various forms

In the preceding passages, has been shown the glory of the Lord as the controller and ordainer of everything. Now will be described, His that inconceivable nature, by which He does not abandon His unity in himself though He appears manifold in many places. Though in the Sutra, II., 3. 44, it was described that the powers of the Lord are mysterious, yet in those Sutras, no reconciliation has been made of the paradoxical statements that the Lord though one, appears simultaneously in many forms, which are apparently different from each other. That reconciliation will now be made, by means of the doctrine of inconceivability.

We have the following text showing that the Lord though One manifests as many:

«Though being One, He manifests as many». — (Gopala Purva Tapani).

Doubt: Are the various forms of the Lord, found in diverse places, mutually different from each other or not?

Purvapaksha: The difference of locality presupposes the difference in the objects occupying that locality; for substances occupying different places cannot be identical; for the quality of being in different places separates them from each other. The above text is merely a general statement and does not mean that One Lord exists in different places. Therefore, the fact is that the gods are many, occupying different places and having different jurisdictions. Thus the gods being many, there cannot be that one-pointed devotion to one God, which you have been trying to establish.

Siddhanta: The God is one only, and not many as will be shown in the next Sutra.

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