The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Abode of Heaven
Introduction by Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana
vicvam bibharti nihsvam yah
karunyad eva deva-rat mamasau paramanando
govindas tanutam 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 Pada will be considered some scriptural texts that may seem to describe the jiva or some other topic but in truth describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Visaya: Mundaka Upanisad 2.2.5 says:
yasmin dyauh prthivi cantariksam
otam manah saha pranaic ca sarvaih tam evaikam janatha atmanam anya vaco vimuYcathamrtasyaisa setuh
"Know that He in whom heaven, earth, sky, mind, breath, and everything else, are woven, is the atma. Give up talking of anything else. He is the shore of the eternal."
Samcaya: Is the abode of heaven described here the pradhana, jiva, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
Purvapaksa: The abode of heaven here is the 2}pradhana because pradhana is the cause of all material transformations and also because the words 2}amrta-setu (the shore of the eternal) appropriately describe pradhana, which leads the living entities to liberation just as milk brings nourishment to a calf. The word atma in this passage may refer to 2}pradhana either because pradhana brings happiness to the living entities or because it is all-pervading. Then again the words in this passage may refer to the 2}jiva because the jiva is the enjoyer of the the things in this world and because the j.iva possesses the mind and the breath mentioned in this passage. Siddhanat: Now he speaks the conclusion.