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

complete non-difference). This means that because there is no difference in Their personalities, the same Lord Hari and the same associates present in the previous actions are also present in the subsequent actions. That Lord Hari remains one even though He expands into many forms is confirmed in the Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad in these words: eko 'pi san bahudhā yo 'vabhāti "Although He is one, the Supreme Lord appears in many forms." Also, in the Smṛti-śāstra it is said: ekāneka-svarūpāya "Although He is one, the Supreme Lord appears in many forms." This is also true of the Lord's liberated associates, who remain one even though they appear in many forms. In the Bhūma-vidyā (Chāndogya Upaniṣad 7.26.2) this is said of the liberated souls. In the Smṛti-śāstra this is also said in the description of the Lord's marriage with many princesses and in other pastimes also. In this way the Lord and the liberated souls can, retaining Their identities, expand themselves to be present eternally in different places in time. The sentence "It was twice-cooked" is understood by an intelligent person to mean that one thing was cooked twice, not that two separate foods were separately cooked. In the same way the sentence, "He called out the word `cow' twice," means that one cow was addressed twice, not that two cows were addressed. In this way Lord Hari, His eternal associates, and His transcendental abodes all retain their identities even though they are manifested in many different places and perform activities that are all eternal even though their activities have a beginning and an end. In this way it is said that a wonderful variety of transcendental mellows are manifested by this sequence of eternal events. It is not that these ideas do not have their root in the descriptions of scripture. In the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad (3.8.3) it is said: yad bhūtaṁ bhavac ca bhaviṣyac ca "The Supreme Personality of Godhead exists in the past, present, and future." In the Atharva Veda it is said: eko devo nitya-līlānuraktaḥ