The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s3.t2.7
The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c7.s3.t2.7
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c7.s3.t2.7
According to all this, we must assume that before the creation, when, as the scriptures say, there was “one only, without a second,” space must have formed an all-penetrating, formless unity with Brahman, like water mixed with milk; and this separated at the creation in such a way that space remained immovable, while Brahman exerted itself (yatate) to produce the world (p. 612, 3).