Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.53

8.53

iti nyāyena yato jaḍasya na kāraṇatā na vānīśvarasya cetanasyāpi tasmāt tena tena jagadgatajanmasthityādibhāvavikāratattadbhedakriyāsahasrarūpeṇa sthātum icchoḥ svatantrasya bhagavato maheśvarasyecchaivottarottaram ucchūnasvabhāvā kriyā viśvakartṛtvaṃ vocyata iti/

According to these principles, causality not pertaining either to the insentient or to the non-divine intelligence, the mere will of Maheśvara, the absolute Lord, when he wills to emanate into thousands of forms, as this or that difference, this or that action, this or that modification of entity, of birth, continuance, and the like, in the series of transmigratory environments,—his mere will is his progressively higher and higher activity, that is to say, his universal creativeness.