The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c5.s3.t3.24

c5.s3.t3.24

Thus the word of the Veda, with its whole complex of ideas of the world and its relations, forms an eternal rule of guidance for the Creator, outlasting every disappearance of the world. The Creator “remembers,” while he shapes the world, the words of the Veda (p. 297, 10), and thus the world originates with its constant forms (niyata-ākṛiti) as the gods and the rest, from the word of the Veda (p. 298, 2). Naturally this coming forth of the gods etc. from the Veda is not, like the evolution from the Brahman, to be taken in the sense of a causa materialis (upādāna-kāraṇam), but it means only “a coming forth of the individuals of things in conformity with the use of the words of the scriptures” (çabda-vyavahāra-yogya-artha-vyakti-nishpattiḥ, p. 287, 9), which were there before the world, not only according to the witness of scripture and tradition (p. 288), but also because they are the necessary pre-supposition of creation. For if one wishes to make anything, one must first call to mind the word that indicates it (p. 289, 3), and thus also before the creation the Vedic words were present in the spirit of the Creator, and, according to them, he shaped all things (p. 289, 5).