Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.58

8.58

ye tu varṇayanti nopādānaṃ vinā ghaṭādyutpattir iti yogī tv icchayā paramāṇūn vyāpārayan saṃghaṭayatīti te ’pi bodhanīyāḥ/ yadi paridṛṣṭakāryakāraṇabhāvaviparyayo na labhyeta tarhi ghaṭe mṛddaṇḍacakrādi dehe strīpuruṣasaṃyogādi sarvam apekṣyeta/ tathā ca yogīcchāsamanantarasaṃjātaghaṭadehādisaṃbhavo duḥsamartha eva syāt/ cetana eva tu tathā bhāti bhagavān bhūribhago mahādevo niyatyanuvartanollaṅghanaghanatarasvātantrya iti pakṣe na kācid anupapattiḥ/ ata evoktaṃ vasuguptācāryaiḥ —

As for those who say that a jar or the like cannot be made without materials to make it of, and that when a thaumaturgist makes one he does so by putting atoms in motion by his will, and so composing it: they may be informed that unless there is to be a palpable violation of the causal relation, all the co-efficients, without exception, must be desiderated; to make the jar there must be the clay, the potter's staff, the potter's wheel, and all the rest of it; to make a body there must be the congress of the male and female, and the successive results of that congress. Now, if that be the case, the genesis of a jar, a body, or the like, upon the mere volition of the thaumaturgist, would be hardly possible.

On the other hand, there is no difficulty in supposing that Mahādeva, amply free to remain within or to over-step any limit whatever, the Lord, manifold in his operancy, the intelligent principle, thus operates. Thus it is that Vasuguptācārya says—