THE SATRAS - II

'Salutation to Narayana of immeasurable power; thou art the cause of the causes, yet no cause at all. Thou hast no beginning, end or interruption. All blissful God, I bow down to thee. Salutation to
Thee God, whose magnanimity is unknowable. Spreading over the world Thou art upholding it. Thou art watching and protecting all living beings. From thee emanate creation, preservation and
destruction."1

Sankaradeva has thus maintained that God is the first and the final cause of creation. The change of the body from subtle to gross state does not affect the nature of God, because it is His body that under - goes modification, while as the soul of the cosmic body He remains unchanged. Thus the self-determining iswara is the Absolute of Sankaradeva.

1.Tr.H.N.Dutta Baruah.

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