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

tad upary api bādarāyaṇaḥ sambhavāt
tad-that; upari-above; api-also; bādarāyaṇaḥ-Vyāsadeva; sambhavāt-because of
being possible.
Beings superior to humankind are able to meditate on the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. This is the opinion of Vyāsa.
Purport by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa
The devas and other beings superior to humankind are able to meditate on the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the opinion of Lord Vyāsadeva. Why?
Because according to the Upaniṣads, Vedic mantras, Itihāsas, Purāṇas, and ancient
tradition, they do indeed have bodies and senses. Because they have heavenly
bodies and senses they are able to meditate and they are also able to become
detached from their heavenly opulence and voluntarily renounce it. Because they
are aware of the baseness and impermanence of their celestial opulence they are
able to be detached from it and renounce it. The Viṣṇu Purāṇa (6.5.50) explains:
na kevalaṁ dvija-śreṣṭha
narake duḥkha-paddhatiḥ
svarge 'pi yāta-bhītasya
kṣayiṣṇor nāsti nirvṛtiḥ
"O best of the brāhmaṇas, torment does not exist only in hell. The residents of
the heavenly planets, afraid that they may one day fall from heaven, have no
happiness."
For this reason the devas desire spiritual happiness. This is so because they have
heard from the śruti-śāstra that spiritual bliss is limitless, eternal, and pure. The
śruti explains that to attain spiritual knowledge the devas and other celestial
beings observe vows of celibacy. This is described in the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad
(5.2.1) in these words: tatra yāḥ prājāpatyāḥ prajāpatau pitari brahmacaryam ūṣur
devā manuṣyā asurāḥ (The devas, humans, and asuras, who were all sons of Lord
Brahmā, lived with their father as celibate students of spiritual knowledge). In the
Chāndogya Upaniṣad (8.11.3) King Indra is described in the following words: eka-
śataṁ ha vai varṣāṇi maghavā prajāpatau brahmacaryam uvāsa (For a hundred
years King Indra lived as a celibate student of spiritual knowledge in the home of
Lord Brahmā). For these reasons, therefore, the devas and other higher beings are
able to meditate on the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The following objection may be raised: "This idea (that the devas are not beings
created by mantras but are conditioned living entities residing in material bodies)
is not consistent with the activities of the devas and other higher beings because it
is not possible that a single embodied demigod could come to many different
places at once when called to appear at many agnihotra-yajñas in many different