गोविन्द भाष्य (श्रील बलदेव विद्याभूषण - अचिन्त्यभेदाभेद वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

"O saintly one, in the beginning was Brahman."
Another passage (Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.4.7) proclaims avyākṛta (the
unmanifested) as the original cause in the following words:
tad vaidaṁ tarhy avyākṛtam āsīt tan-nāma-rūpābhyāṁ vyākriyata
" In the beginning was the unmanifested. From it all the names and forms have
come."
Many other passages could also be quoted to show the different theories of
creation. Because in these passages of the Vedas many different things have been
described as the sole original cause of creation, it cannot be said that Brahman is
the sole cause of the creation of the world. However, it is possible to say that
pradhāna is the sole cause of creation, as we find in the passage (beginning with
the word tarhi already quoted from the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad. If this view is
accepted, then the contradiction of seeing one thing sometimes as the original
cause and sometimes as a product of the original cause becomes at once resolved.
Because it is all-pervading the pradhāna can appropriately be called ātmā, ākāśa,
and brahma, because it is the resting-place of all transformations and because it is
eternal it may appropriately be called asat, and because it is the origin of all
breathing it may metaphorically be called breath. When the scriptures state that
the original cause performed activities, such as thinking (Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad
1.2.5 explains sa aikṣata: The original cause thought.) these may also be
considered metaphors. All this evidence clearly demonstrates that pradhāna is the
original cause of creation of the world as described in the Vedānta literature. In the
context of this argument:
Sūtra 14
kāraṇatvena cākāśādiṣu yathā vyapadiṣṭokteḥ
kāraṇatvena -as the cause; ca-certainly; ākāśa-sky; ādiṣu -beginning with; yathā
-as; vyapadiṣṭa-described; ukteḥ-from the statement.
The Upaniṣads state that Brahman is the cause of sky and the other elements.
Purport by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa
The word ca (certainly) is used here to dispel doubt. It may be said that
Brahman is the only cause of the world. Why? Because "the Upaniṣads state that
Brahman is the cause of sky and the other elements." The words yathā
vyapadiṣṭam (as described) mean “Brahman who in the lakṣaṇa-sūtra ofVedānta