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

yathā sat-patha-gāminaḥ O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O destroyer of enemies, my life-breaths, which are born from You, have left the path of virtue. O Lord, please bring them under control and push them on the path that is right. Adhikaraṇa 1 The Prāṇas Are Manifested From the Supreme Personality of Godhead Introduction by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa In the Third Pāda contradictory scriptural passages describing the elements were harmonized. In the Fourth Pāda contradictory passages describing the prāṇas (life-force and senses) will be harmonized. The prāṇas are of two kinds: primary and secondary. The secondary prāṇas are the eleven senses, beginning with the eyes. The primary prāṇas are the five life-airs, beginning with apāna. First the secondary prāṇas will be examined. In the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad (2.1.3) it is said: etasmāj jāyate prāṇo manaḥ sarvendriyāṇi ca "From this are born prāṇa, mind, and all the senses." Saṁśaya (doubt): Is this description of the creation of the senses metaphorical, like the description of the creation of the individual souls, or literal, like the description of the creation of ether and the other elements? Pūrvapakṣa (the opponent speaks): This is explained in the following words of the Śruti-śāstra: asad vā idam agra āsīt tad āhuḥ kiṁ tad āsīd iti ṛṣayo vāva te asad āsīt tad āhuḥ ke te ṛṣaya iti prāṇā vāva ṛṣayaḥ. "He said: In the beginning was non-being. They said: What was that non-being? He said: The non-being was many sages. They said: Who were those sages? He said: Those sages were the prāṇas." This passage from the Śruti-śāstra clearly shows that the the senses, which are