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

"The one Supreme Personality of Godhead is eternally engaged in many, many transcendental forms in relationships with His unalloyed devotees."* The Supreme Lord Himself affirms (Bhagavad-gītā 4.9): janma karma ca me divyam "One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna."* Only a person who has attained the Supreme Lord's mercy can understand and accept all of this, as the Supreme Lord Himself declares (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.32): yāvān ahaṁ yathā-bhāvo yad-rūpa-guṇa-karmakaḥ tathaiva tattva-vijñānam astu te mad-anugrahāt "All of Me, namely My actual eternal form and My transcendental existence, color, qualities, and activities, let all be awakened within you by factual realization, out of My causeless mercy."* In this way it is proved that the Lord's activities are eternal. However, only the actions that the Lord performs with the help of His spiritual potency are eternal, and the actions that the Lord performs with the help of His material potencies and material time are not eternal, for if the Lord's creation of the material universes were eternal then the eventual dissolution of the universes could not occur. Adhikaraṇa 6 Meditation on the Lord's Qualities Introduction by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa Now the author of the sūtras discusses the following point. In the Vedānta scriptures the Lord's blissfulness and other transcendental qualities are all