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VICHAR MALA.
As gold melted into moulds assumes several shapes. So is Brahma made to appear many, through Maya.
As when gold is melted and thrown into moulds, it assumes divers forms according to the character of the moulds, so through the associate Maya, Brahma is discovered manifeld.
But that leads you to an admission of change; for change implies a substitution of some other form, for its original shape. As for instance milk converted into curd from the relation of an associated acid, that is its changed condition; so Brahma through the associate of Maya leaves Its condition of Brahma, and is changed into a modification of the objective world then like curd of milk, it is necessarily a changed condition. But this inference is due to ignorance of what the Sidhanta says. Only vivarta is admitted in It. That means a changed condition without any difference of form being produced.* Brahma does not abandon Its natural Intelligence, bliss, and eternal existence to be transformed or converted into ether or other objects, as in the following examples :
As all earthen articles are transformations of earth; Ice, a modification of water;
Cloth that of yarn.
So know Self to be the world.
The sight of a snake in rope, A stump for a thief,
And silver in nacre Tempting a mind to grasp it.
* With reference to causes, it has been said, that when a cause undergoes change of form to produce an action, it is Vikara or pari nama. But where no such actual change of name and form takes place it is called Vivarta: curdled milk is an instance of the former, as snake in the rope, of the second.-DHOLE'S Vedanta Sara. p. 34.
