Sarvadarshanasangraha 14.40

14.40

Now, it may be objected: The insentient primary principle, unpresided over by a conscious being, does not engage in effects such as the intellect. Therefore, there must be some conscious ruler. And so the supreme Lord, who beholds all objects, would have to be accepted. If this is urged, it is incorrect, because the activity of the primary principle, even though insentient, is explicable by force of a purpose. And the insentient, unpresided over by a conscious being, is seen to operate for an aim of human existence: just as insentient milk functions for the growth of the calf, and just as insentient water functions for the benefit of the world, so insentient primal matter too will operate for the liberation of the person. So it has been said: