Brahma Sutras (Govinda Bhashya)
by Kusakratha das Brahmacari | 2010 | 343,161 words | ISBN-10: 8175050063
This is the English translation of the Brahma-sutras including the Govinda Bhashya commentary of Baladeva Vidyabhushana鈥攁n Indian spiritual teacher (Acharya) of the Gaudiya branch of Vaishnavam from the 18th century. This Govinda Bhasya aims to apply Vedantic principles to address universal human concerns, such as suffering and death, rather than m...
S奴tra 1.3.25
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of S奴tra 1.3.25:
啶灌啶︵啶 啶夃お啷囙啷嵿し啶ぞ 啶む 啶え啷佮し啷嵿く啶距ぇ啶苦啶距ぐ啶む啶掂ぞ啶む
h峁沝y 耻辫别办峁测腻 tu manu峁膩dhik膩ratv膩t
丑峁沝颈 鈥� in the heart; 耻辫别办峁测腻 鈥� with relation; tu 鈥� indeed; 尘补苍耻峁补 鈥� of human beings; 补诲丑颈办腻谤补迟惫腻迟 鈥� because of the qualification.
鈥淭his is so because the Supreme Personality of Godhead indeed appears in the hearts of men.鈥� (25)
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础诲丑测腻测补 1:
The subject matter of all Vedic literatures is Brahman;
笔腻诲补 3:
Scriptural Texts that may Seem to Describe the 闯墨惫补 or some other Topic, but in Truth Describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead.;
础诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺 6:
The Person the Size of a Thumb is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Baladeva Vidy膩bh奴峁峁嘺鈥檚 commentary (Govinda-bh膩峁a)
The word tu [indeed] is used here for emphasis. The all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes the size of a thumb because He is meditated on as being the size of thumb within the heart.
Another interpretation is that because He appears, by His inconceivable potency, in such a small form in the heart He is meditated on in that way, as has been already described.
啶呧ぇ啶苦く啶溹啶炧 啶洁す啶 啶忇さ啶距い啷嵿ぐ 啶︵啶灌 啶︵啶�-啶啶むぞ啶� 啶掂ぐ
adhiyaj帽o 'ham ev膩tra dehe deha-bh峁泃膩峁� vara
鈥淚, the Supreme Lord, represented as the Supersoul in the heart of every embodied being, am called 补诲丑颈测补箩帽补 [the Lord of sacrifice].鈥� [叠丑补驳补惫补诲-驳墨迟腻 8.4]
啶忇さ啶� 啶膏啶�-啶氞た啶む啶む 啶膏啶掂い 啶忇さ 啶膏た啶︵啶�
啶嗋い啷嵿ぎ啶� 啶啶班た啶 啶洁ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷� 啶啶掂ぞ啶ㄠ 啶呧え啶ㄠ啶む
啶む 啶ㄠた啶班啶掂啶む 啶ㄠた啶い啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷� 啶啷囙い
啶膏啶膏ぞ啶�-啶灌啶む啶ぐ啶ざ啷� 啶� 啶い啷嵿ぐeva峁� sva-citte svata eva siddha
膩tm膩 priyo 'rtho bhagav膩n ananta岣�
ta峁� nirv峁泃o niyat膩rtho bhajeta
sa峁僺膩ra-het奴parama艣 ca yatra鈥淭hus being fixed [in renunciation], one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one鈥檚 own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.鈥� [艢谤墨尘补诲-叠丑腻驳补惫补迟补尘 2.2.6]
Someone may object, 鈥淏ecause the different species have bodies of different sizes and hearts of different sizes it is not possible that the Lord can appear in all of them in this size.鈥� If this objection is raised, to answer it he says 尘腻苍耻峁腻诲丑颈办腻谤补迟惫腻迟: 鈥淭he Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in the hearts of men.鈥� Although the scriptures do not specify any particular species, implying that the Lord appears in the hearts of all living entities, he [痴测腻蝉补] singles out human beings. He does this because it is human beings who are able to meditate and therefore the measurement is given here according to the human body. For this reason there is no contradiction here. In the same way in the hearts of elephants, horses, and all other creatures the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in a form the size of the thumb of each creature. In this way there is no contradiction.
It is not possible for the 箩墨惫补, however, to be present within the heart in a form the size of a thumb because the original form of the 箩墨惫补 is atomic in size, as explained in the 艢惫别迟腻艣惫补迟补谤补 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 [5.9] in the words 产腻濒腻驳谤补-艣补迟补-产丑腻驳补蝉测补: 鈥淲hen the upper point of a hair is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundred parts, each such part is the measurement of the dimension of the 箩墨惫补 soul.鈥� For all these reasons, therefore, the person the size of a thumb is Lord 痴颈峁ａ箛耻.