Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.1.36

Because the Lord’s dispensation depends upon Karma, He cannot be supposed to become dependent (or conditioned). From such texts as, “ He is Supreme Lord by whose grace (alone)do exist Matter, action, time, nature and the Soul; and by whose displeasure all these cease to exist,” it is clearly understood that even the very exis- tence of Karma and other things depends upon the Lord. (Nor would it be proper still to think that the fault of inequality, etc., attaches itself to the Lord) ; for Scripture clearly intimates such inequality (partiality) to be admis- sible in the Lord as in Chathurveda Sikha text, ** Though the Lord Himself able to rule and change the very nature of things, causes the souls to do right as well as wrong, still He cannot be held to be affected thereby. For the Lord is the cause of the very being of merit and demerit- But He is far different from all these, He is without a beginning ; and He is the beginning of all. To clear the remaining objections and thereby pro- ving in the Lord, the existence of all excellences and absence of all defects, the Sutrakara concludes the enquiry by affirming tbe Lord’s perfectness (in the following Sutra).