Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.53

English (machine translation) 8.53

Language: English

8.53

By this reasoning, because an insentient entity has no causality, nor does an unsovereign conscious being, therefore the will alone of the independent, blessed Maheśvara—who desires to exist in the form of thousands of distinct activities, such as the modifications of being like origination and maintenance belonging to the universe—becoming progressively swollen in nature, is called action or universal agency.

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The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English

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Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha — Mādhava, Sanskrit