From admissibility and from the particular Vedic Passage.

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19. From admissibility and from the particular Vedic Passage.

When it is admitted that the quality of being efficacious, belonging to the means, is derived from the Lord, then the bringing together of the means as proving the existence of the ruled serves but to glorify the Lord’s supremacy. From such authorities it is reasonable to hold that the Lord creates with other things as means of which He is the master. The other Vedic passages which speak to the same effect are such as the following; “ Hiranyagarbha is born with waters (i.e., the elements) and so the eight, etc.” (Mn. i-ii).

20. And like a piece of cloth.

The Sutrakara holds the above view not only because scripture declares Brahman to be working with means but also because reason supports the view; for the creation (making) of cloths, etc,, is observed to take place with (materials and) means other than the agent working at it.

21. And the means are of no independent existence as the vital airs etc. (i.e., the body and the organs are).

For all the means (and materials) are always imbued with the Lord’s presence as their guiding principle, just as the body the senses, the vital airs are. The Kurrnapura.ua says, “The Lord of Lords full of glory, perfect in power, entered into Prakriti and Purusha, agitated them so as to bring about the creation of the world”, (i.e., gave them the impetus necessary for the production of the various things).

The view that the soul is the creator, brought forward on the strength of Scripture, is (again) refuted (here) in detail.

22. If it be said that on account of the other’s (souls) authorship being declared, lit is the absolute agent, then, it might be said, he (the creator) is liable to the defects of being unable to accomplish his own good, etc.

If the individual soul is held to be the sole agent (creator), that would be inconsistent with the soul’s inability to do what is good to himself, and on the other hand working his own evil.

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