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

explained the way to make that transcendental knowledge very steady and secure. At the end of the Chāndogya Upaniṣad (8.15.1) it is said: ācārya-kulād vedam adhītya yathā-vidhānaṁ guroḥ karmātiśeṣeṇābhisamāvṛtya kuṭumbe śucau deśe svādhyāyam adhīyāno dharmikān vidadhātmani sarvendriyāṇi sampratiṣṭhāpyāhiṁsān sarva-bhūtāny anyatra tīrthebhyaḥ sa khalv evaṁ vartayan yāvad āyuṣaṁ brahmalokam abhisampadyate na ca punar āvartate. "From the ācāryas one should learn the Vedas. One should perform his duties and also offer dakṣiṇā to his spiritual master. Then one should accept household life, live in a pure way, study the Vedas, perform his religious duties, engage all his senses in the Supreme Lord's service, not harm any living being, and go on pilgrimage to holy places. A person who passes his life in this way goes to the spiritual world. He does not return to this world of repeated birth and death." Saṁśaya (doubt): Are they who are not in the gṛhastha-āśrama able attain transcendental knowledge, or are they not able to attain it? Pūrvapakṣa (the opponent speaks): Here and there the scriptures may say that the sannyāsīs are able to attain transcendental knowledge, but this is only flattery, only empty words of praise. These passages merely mean that one should renounce everything for the sake of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The conclusion is that in order to attain the Supreme Personality of Godhead one must accept the gṛhastha-āśrama. That is the teaching of the scriptures. Siddhānta (conclusion): In the following words the author of the sūtras gives His conclusion. Sūtra 48 kṛtsna-bhāvāt tu gṛhiṇopasaṁhāraḥ kṛtsna—of all; bhāvāt—because of the existence; tu—but; gṛhiṇā—by the gṛhastha; upasaṁhāraḥ—the goal. But because of all the goal is by a gṛhastha. Purport by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa The word "tu" (but) is used here to dispel doubt. This passage from the