Verses on Sāṃkhya 16.5

16.5

iti gītāsu(2 |16) | "sad eva somyedam agra āsīt"[chāndogyopaniṣad 6 |2 |1] iti śruteś ca | tad yathā --- dadhyādayaḥ prāk prasūteḥ kṣīre 'vibhaktāḥ santy eva | yady asata utpattis tadā kāṣṭhakhaṇḍād api ghaṭādyutpattiḥ syāt | yato na bhavati | tasmān mṛtpiṇḍe kāraṇe ghaṭādeḥ sata evotpattir iti samīcīnam | yathā jalabhūmyor etadrasagandhādivaiśvarūpyam avibhaktam asty eva sthāvarāṇāṃ jaṅgameṣu jaṅgamānāṃ sthāvareṣu | evaṃ jātyanucchedena sarvaṃ sarvātmakam iti //

as it is said in the Gītā (2.16); and from the Vedic text: "Existent alone, gentle one, was this in the beginning" [Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.2.1]. For example: curd and so forth are indeed undivided in milk prior to being produced. If origination were of the non-existent, then the origination of a pot and the like would occur even from a piece of wood. Since it does not occur, therefore, the origination of a pot and the like, only as something existent, in the cause which is a lump of clay, is correct. Just as this multiformity of taste, smell, and the like is indeed undivided in water and earth, of stationary beings in moving ones, and of moving beings in stationary ones. In this way, through the non-destruction of universal types, everything is of the nature of everything. //