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 2.4.1
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of S奴tra 2.4.1:
啶むぅ啶� 啶啶班ぞ啶｀ぞ啶�
迟补迟丑腻 辫谤腻峁嚹佱弗
迟补迟丑腻 鈥� so; 辫谤腻峁嚹佱弗 鈥� the 辫谤腻峁嚹乻.
鈥淭丑别 辫谤补峁嘺蝉 are like that.鈥� (1)
S奴tra pagination:
础诲丑测腻测补 2:
No Conflict Between 痴别诲腻苍迟补 and Other Vedic Scriptures;
笔腻诲补 4:
Harmonizing contradictory passages describing the 笔谤腻峁嘺蝉;
础诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺 1:
The 笔谤腻峁嘺蝉 Are Manifested From the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Baladeva Vidy膩bh奴峁峁嘺鈥檚 commentary (Govinda-bh膩峁a)
As ether and the other elements were manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so the 辫谤腻峁嘺蝉 and the senses were also manifested from Him. That is the meaning here. In the beginning of creation the ingredients of the material world were merged together into one. Then the different ingredients were manifested.
This is described in Mu峁囜笉aka Upani峁d [2.1.3]:
啶忇い啶膏啶ぞ啶溹 啶溹ぞ啶い啷� 啶啶班ぞ啶｀ 啶え啶� 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啷囙え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ啶苦く啶距ぃ啶� 啶�
etasm膩j j膩yate pr膩峁噊 mana岣� sarvendriy膩峁噄 ca
The creation of the material senses is not like the creation of the conscious individual spirit souls, because the souls are free from the transformations that are always present in matter: conception, gestation, birth, growth, production of byproducts, dwindling and death. When they describe the creation of the individual spirit souls, the words of the scriptures are all allegories, but when they describe the creation of the senses, the words of the scriptures are literal descriptions. This is so because the senses are by nature material. This being so, the words 辫谤腻峁嘺 and 峁涐梗颈 [sages] in this passage refer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is so because both these words are names of the all-knowing Supreme Person.
Here someone may object: 鈥淚s it not so that because the words 辫谤腻峁嚹佱弗 and 峁涐梗补测补岣� [sages] are both plural, it is not possible that they can here be names of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?鈥�
In the following words the author of the 蝉奴迟谤补蝉 answers this objection.