Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.58

8.58

As for those who assert that there is no production of a pot and the like without a material cause, and that the yogin, activating atoms through his will, brings them together, they too are to be enlightened. If an inversion of the observed relation of cause and effect were not accepted, then for a pot, clay, stick, wheel, and the like, and for a body, union of female and male and the like, would all be required. And thus the occurrence of a pot, body, and the like arising immediately after a yogin's will would be utterly impossible to defend. On the view, however, that it is the conscious Lord himself—the great god of abundant fortune, whose supreme freedom is intensified by either conforming to or transcending natural order—who shines in that manner, there is no incoherence whatsoever. For this very reason it has been said by the venerable teacher Vasugupta: