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

Upaniṣad is also Lord Viṣṇu. Now he refutes the idea that vaiśvānara refers to the fire of digestion. Sūtra 27 śabdādibhyo 'ntaḥ pratiṣṭhānāc ca neti cen na tathā dṛṣṭy-upadeśād asambhavāt puruṣa-vidham api cainam adhīyate śabda—the words; ādibhyaḥ—beginning with; antaḥ—within; pratiṣṭhānāt— because of abiding; ca—and; na—not; iti—thus; cet—if; na—not; tathā—thus; dṛṣṭi— sight; upadeśāt—from the teaching; asambhavāt—because of being impossible; puruṣa—a person; vidham—the nature; api—also; ca—and; enam—Him; adhīyate— is read. If (it is said the "vaiśvānara" here) cannot (be Lord Viṣṇu) because many words here refute this idea and because (the "vaiśvānara" is said here) to reside in the heart, (then I say) no because the teaching (of the scriptures is that one should) meditate (on Lord Viṣṇu in the heart) in this way, because it is not possible (to interpret the word here to mean anything else), and because (the text here describes the {.sy 168}vaiśvānara") as a person with a humanlike form. Purport by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa The objection may be raised: The vaiśvānara here cannot be Lord Viṣṇu. The text says ayam agnir vaiśvānaraḥ (This is the vaiśvānara fire). Because these words prove that vaiśvānara here means fire, the passage hṛdayaṁ gārhapatyo mano 'nvāhāryapacana āsyam āhvanīyaḥ (the gārhapatya fire is His heart, the anvāhāryapacana fire is His mind, and the āhavanīya fire is His mouth) presents the vaiśvānara as a group of three fires. The vaiśvānara is fire, and not Lord Viṣṇu, because vaiśvānara is said to be the resting place of prāṇa (breath) and again because the Vedas say vaiśvānara stays within the heart of the living entity. Here the sūtra answers this objection by saying cen na, which means "if it is said that the vaiśvānara is fire, then I say no." Why? The sūtra says tathā dṛṣṭy- upadeśād asambhavāt puruṣa-vidham api cainam adhīyate (because the teaching of the scriptures is that one should meditate on Lord Viṣṇu in the heart in this way, because it is not possible to interpret the word here to mean anything else, and because the text here describes the vaizvānara) as a person with a humanlike form). Tathā here means {.sy 168}by considering to be the fire of digestion," dṛṣṭi, means "meditation on Lord Viṣṇu," and asambhavāt means "it is not possible to interpret the word vaiśvānara to mean anything but Lord Viṣṇu because the text of the Upaniṣad says that heaven is the head of the vaiśvānara and the other parts of