Book excerpt: The Vedic seers say: 'God is the creator of the universe.' Narayana: The cosmos is an eternal thought in the mind of Brahman. The cosmos is a living being and of mental nature. This mental life.form or being is immortal. It is one of the mental functions of Brahman. The Vedic seers say: 'God brings forth the universe by means of the Veda's.' Narayana: 'Although the cosmos expands and contracts like one breathing, it is forever. There never was a station, where the cosmos was not, nor shall it ever be that there is no cosmos. St. Thomas von Aquinas was in fatal error when he stated that Nothing contains a potential from whence something can be made by God. The everlasting cosmos cannot be brought forth by anything or anyone. For the cosmos is not separate from God, but a living function of the living God.'