गोविन्द भाष्य (श्रील बलदेव विद्याभूषण - अचिन्त्यभेदाभेद वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

material universe is made from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, just as many things are manifested from sources very different in nature, just as worms come from honey, as elephants, horses, and other animals come from the kalpa- drumatree, and as gold and other things come from the cintāmaṇi jewel. The ātharvaṇikas give the following example (Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.1.7): yathorṇanābhiḥ sṛjate gṛṇate ca* yathā pṛthivyām oṣadhayaḥ sambhavanti yathā sataḥ puruṣāt keśa-lomani tathākṣarāt sambhavatīha viśvam "As a spider expands and withdraws its web, as innumerable plants sprout from the soil, and as hairs grow on a person's body, so is the material universe manifested from the imperishable Supreme Personality of Godhead." Adhikaraṇa 6 Nothingness Is Not The First Cause Introduction by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa Someone may object: "If the material world is different from its ingredient, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then before the world was manifested, it was not already existent within the Supreme. Before it was manifested it did not exist. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead alone existed then, in the beginning the material world did not exist. However this view cannot be held by they who affirm that the the material world is real because it is created by the Supreme Reality." If this objection is raised, he replies is the following words. Sūtra 7 If someone maintains the material world to be unreal, then I say no. The world is not unreal merely because it is in nature different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Purport by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa There is no fault in this. Why? The sūtra says pratiṣedha-mātratvāt (The world is not unreal merely because it is in nature different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead). The previous sūtra denied that a substance and its ingredient must have the same nature. It is not that a thing and its ingredient are different in substance. This is so because the Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes transformed, becoming the body of the material world, which is by nature different from Him. This is the meaning: Is it because 1. His nature is different from the