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

non-sentient, and the Supreme Lord. They are generally called tattva-traya. The inumerable living entities as a group are called the sentient energy of the Supreme Lord, wheras the cosmic manifestation is called the material energy of the Lord. The Lord Himself is above them. He has all-auspicious transcendental qualities. He is omniscient and omnipotent. He is self-effulgent. He is the Lord of the creation. He is known as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. The material world and the living entities are sentient and insentient bodily parts of the Lord. Śrī Rāmānujācārya has elaborately delineated his philosophy in 12 divisions as follows;

1. The Supreme Absolute Truth is one in the combination of gross, subtle, sentient, and insentient groups,
2. He has protested against the doctrine of dualism as well as the doctrine of monism.
3. He has accepted that the Absolute Truth, Brahman, has transcendental qualities and transcendental potencies, and therefore He is not impersonal.
4. He has vehemently protested the doctrine of an impersonal, non-qualitative Absolute Truth.
5. He has deliberately established the doctrine of the living entities being infinitesimal and the in the supreme Lord being infinite, and therefore the infinitesimal living entities are constitutionally meant for serving the infinite Supreme Personality of Godhead.
6. He has established that the living entities, who are infinitesimal, are subject to fall victim under ignorance, but when they are out of that position of ignorance they become again liberated.
7. He has proved that only transcendental loving service to the Supreme Lord is the means of liberation from material entanglement.
8. According to his oppinion, devotional service is the supermost prosecss for self-realization.
9. He has stated strongly that even in the state of liberation one cannot be equal with the Supreme Lord.
10. He has put strong arguments against the impersonal doctrine of monism.
11. He has proved that this material world is abominable, and the spiritual world is real life for eternal bliss.
12. He has established that the living entities and the cosmic manifestation are different bodily parts of the Supreme Lord. Also, Rāmānujācārya has explained that the Supreme Personality of Godhead descends in five different features, namely arcā, the Deity in the temple, the incarnations, such as the fish-incarnation, tortise-incarnation, boar-incarnation, and Nṛsiṁha-incarnation, which are called vaibhava. Then He has expansions called vyūha, such as the expansions of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha. His impersonal expansion is the effulgence of His body. He is also present in everyone's heart as Antaryāmī, or the Supersoul. All these different plenary portions of the Supreme Lord are beyond material contamination, eternal, without any lamentation, always superior than the living entities, and full of six opulences. According to Rāmānujācārya, there are five kinds of methods of worship, which are called abhigamana, upadāna, ijyā, sadhyāya, and yoga. When devotees go to the temple, clean the temple or the path to the temple, and decorate the temple in