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[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 ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― 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.