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

opinions just as houses and other enclosures take up a small portion of the vastness of space." Pada 3 Adhikarana 1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Abode of Heaven Introduction by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa viśvaṁ bibharti niḥsvaṁ yaḥ kāruṇyād eva deva-rāṭ mamāsau paramānando govindas tanutāṁ ratim I pray that Lord Govinda, the supremely blissful king of the demigods, who mercifully maintains this pathetic material world, may give me pure love for Him. In this Third Pāda will be considered some scriptural texts that may seem to describe the jīva or some other topic but in truth describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Viṣaya: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.5 says: yasmin dyauḥ pṛthivī cāntarīkṣam otaṁ manaḥ saha prāṇaiś ca sarvaiḥ tam evaikaṁ jānatha ātmānam anyā vāco vimuñcathāmṛtasyaiṣa setuḥ "Know that He in whom heaven, earth, sky, mind, breath, and everything else, are woven, is the ātmā. Give up talking of anything else. He is the shore of the eternal." Saṁśaya: Is the abode of heaven described here the pradhāna, jīva, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Pūrvapakṣa: The abode of heaven here is the pradhāna because pradhāna is the cause of all material transformations and also because the words amṛta-setu (the shore of eternal) appropriately describe pradhāna, which leads the living