The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s5.t3.5

c8.s5.t3.5

In reply to these objections Śaṅkara (in the passage translated above p. 86) explains that the soul involved in ignorance is dependent on God in respect of its action and sufferings (*kartṛtvam* and *bhoktṛtvam*) because by his permission (*anujñā*) Saṃsāra results, and by his grace (*anugraha*) liberation (p. 682, 5). For even if the soul is connected with defects like love, etc., and equipped with the apparatus, yet in all activity God is the active cause, for thus says the Scripture (Kaush. 3, 8, above p. 179): “for he alone causes him to do good works, whom “he will raise out of these worlds, and he alone causes him to “do evil works, whom he will make to descend.”—