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

sannidhānād yathākāśa- kālādyāḥ kāraṇaṁ taroḥ tathaivāparigāmena viśvasya bhagavān hariḥ nimitta-mātram evāsau sṛṣṭānāṁ sarga-karmaṇi pradhāna-kāriṇī bhūtā yato vai sṛjya-śaktayaḥ "When there is a fragrant flower before someone, the fragrance is touched by the smelling power of the person, yet the smelling and the flower are detached from one another. There is a similar connection between the material world and the Supreme Personality of Godhead: actually He has nothing to do with this material world, but He creates by His glance and ordains. In summary, material nature, without the superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cannot do anything. Yet the Supreme Personality is detached from all material activities." For these reasons whatever scriptural passages state that Brahman is the ingredient of the creation should be interpreted to have a different meaning. SiddhāntaTo this argument: Sūtra 23 prakṛtiś ca pratijñā dṛṣṭāntānuparodhāt prakṛtiḥ -material nature; ca -and; pratijñā -the proposition to be proved; dṛṣṭānta-example; anuparodhāt-because of not contradicting. Brahman is also the material nature (prakṛti) because this view is not contradicted by the statements and examples (given in the scriptures). Purport by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa Brahman is the material nature (prakṛti), the ingredient of the world. How is that? It is so because pratijñā-dṛṣṭāntānuparodhāt, which means "Because this view is not contradicted by the statements and examples of the scriptures." An example may be given from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.1.3: śvetaketo yan nu saumyedaṁ mahā-manā anūcāna-mānī stabdho 'sy uta tam