Pada 2

Introduction by Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana vittir viraktic ca krtaYjalih puro

yasyah parananda-tanor vitisthate siddhic ca seva-samayam pratiksate bhaktih parecasya punatu sa jagat

May devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, devotion that is filled with transcendental bliss, devotion before whom knowledge and renunciation stand, their hands folded with respect, devotion that mystic power yearns to serve, purify the entire world.

Devotional service, by performing which one falls in love with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and attains His association, will be described in this Pada. In order to strengthen the soul's love and devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord's glorious creation of dreams and other states of being, the Lord's identity with His many incarnations, His appearance as the all-pervading Supersoul, His non-identity with His worshipers, who are still one with Him in quality, His being attained only by devotional service, His appearance in both spiritual and material worlds, His transcendental blissfulness, His coming before His devotees according to the devotees' love for Him, His supremacy over all, His supreme generosity, and a great host of the Lord's other virtues and glories will also be described here. When a person desires to love, the beloved's glories must be understood. Otherwise there can be no love.

In the beginning of this Pada will be described the Lord's creation of the dreaming state. The idea that someone other than the Supreme Lord had created the dreaming state contradicts the scriptures' statement that the Lord is the creator of everything. If the Lord sky in the heart" here is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this way the Sruti-sastra explains that dreamless sleep is manifested when the soul enters the nadi s, the membrane surrounding the heart, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Samcaya (doubt): Does the soul enter any one of these three places, or does the soul enter all of

them?

Purvapaksa (the opponent speaks): The soul may enter any one of these places. This is so because these three places are equally able to be the place where the soul sleeps. The Nyaya- sastra explains:

tulyarthas tu vikalperan

"A list of things equally suitable for a certain activity indicates the option of choosing from them."

Siddhanta (conclusion): In the following words the author of the sutras gives His conclusion. Sutra 7

tad-abhavo nadisu tac chruter atmani ca

tat - of that; abhavah - the absence; nadisu - in the nadis; tat - that; sruteh - from Sruti-sastra; atmani - in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca - also.

Its absence occurs in the nadi s and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is so because of the Sruti-sastra.

Purport by Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana

The word "ca" (and) here hints the inclusion of the membrane surrounding the heart. The word "tad-abhava" (its absence) means "the absence of wakefulness and dream". Thus it means "the state of dreamless sleep". Dreamless sleep occurs in the nadis, the membrane surrounding the heart, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead collectively. Why is that? The sutra explains: "tac chruteh" (This is so because of the Sruti-sastra). Thus the Sruti-sastra declares that they are all, taken collectively, the place of dreamless sleep. The idea that there is an option here, and that to perform the activity of deep sleep the soul chooses one of these places, is an idea that contradicts the statements of Sruti-sastra. In the scriptures' description of dreamless sleep, it is seen that the nadi s and pranas are described together. In the Kaucitaki Upanisad (4.19) it is said:

tasu tada bhavati. yada suptah svapnam na kaYcana pacyaty athasmin prana evaikadha bhavati. "Then the soul enters the nadis. When sleeping, the soul does not see any dream. Then the soul become one with the pranas."

The explanation that the soul has an option of one of these three places does not apply here, for if that option were to apply, then these three places would have to be equally suitable for the action of dreamless sleep, but the truth is they are not. What occurs is the soul passes through the door of the nadi s, enters the palace of the membrane surrounding the heart, and sleeps on the bed of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this way all three places are involved in the activity of dreamless sleep, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the actual place where dreamless sleep occurs. The word "puritat" here means "the membrane surrounding the lotus of the heart".

Sutra 8

atah prabodho 'smat

atah - therefore; prabodhah - waking; asmat - from Him.

Therefore the waking state is from Him. Purport by Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana

Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the actual place where dreamless sleep occurs, and the nadis and other things mentioned here are merely doors through which the soul passes in order to rest on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore the waking soul rises from the bed of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the Chandogya Upanisad it is said:

satas cagatya na viduh sata agacchamahe

"We had departed from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although we could not understand that we had departed from the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

In this way the idea that sometimes the soul sleeps in the nadi s, sometimes in the membrane surrounding the heart, and sometimes in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is disproved. It is not like that. Therefore the soul sleeps on the bed of the Supreme Personality of Godhead