वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[sū. 2. 2. 3.
ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 329
SŪTRA 3
"AND IF IT BE ARGUED THAT (PRADHĀNA ACTS SPONTANEOUSLY)
LIKE MILK AND WATER, (WE REPLY.) THERE TOO (LORD IS THE
INCITER)."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
If it be argued that like milk, etc pradhāna acts for the origin
and the rest of the world by itself, (we reply ) that "there too"
the Supreme Being is the inciter is learnt from the scriptural text:
"Who abiding within water" (Bṛh 3.7.4 ¹)
Vedānta-kaustubha
If it be argued: How can it be said that on account of the im-
possibility of spontaneous activity on its part the non-sentient pra-
dhāna is not the cause of the world? Just as milk, though non-
sentient, is by itself transformed into the form of sour milk, and flows
spontaneously for the nourishment of the calf, and just as water
discharged from the cloud is transformed into the form of various
saps of the earth, as well as into the forms of ice, bubble and the rest,
and pours down spontaneously for the growth of plants and the rest,
as well as flows on, so exactly pradhāna too, independent of a sen-
tient being, having entered into a state of mutual inequality of the
guṇas, is transformed into many forms,—
We reply: "There too". That is, in the case of milk and the
rest too, no activity is possible independently of a sentient being.
On the contrary, milk and the rest attain the form of sour milk and
so on only when superintended by a sentient being. It is the cow
herself, fond of her calf, that makes the milk flow out of filial affection,
and being liquid the milk oozes out. If it be argued that even when
the calf is dead, the presence of the milk is observed, and hence to say
that it is the cow that makes the milk flow out of filial affection does
not stand to reason,—(we reply.) there is the flow of the milk then by
reason of her remembrance of the calf, or else it is explicable on the
ground of her love for her master.²
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¹ Ś, R, Bh.
² I.e. the cow gives milk even when the calf is dead because she still remem-
bers the calf, or because she loves her master and wants to be of benefit to him.