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

Pada 3
Adhikaraṇa 1
Ether Is Created
Introduction by Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa
vyomādi-viṣayaṁ gobhir
bibharti vijaghāna yaḥ
sa tāṁ mad-viṣayāṁ bhāsvān
kṛṣṇaḥ praṇīhaniṣyati
May the brilliant sun of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who with rays of logic destroys a host of
misconceptions about ether and the other elements, destroy the misconceptions in
my heart.
In the Second Pāda were revealed the fallacies present in the theories of they
who say pradhāna is the the first cause and they who claim something other than
the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the first cause. In the Third Pāda will be
shown the truth that the various elements of the material world are manifested
from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that they merge into Him at the end,
that the individual spirit souls always existed, there not being a point in time when
they were created, that the individual spirit souls have spiritual bodies full of
knowledge, that the individual spirit souls are atomic in size although by their
consciousness they are all-pervading within the material body, that the individual
spirit souls are part-and-parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that
Matsya-avatāra and the other avatāras are directly the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, and that the variety of situations into which the conditioned souls are
placed is caused by the previous karma. These will all be proved by refuting the
ideas of they who claim that these statements are not true.
The various aspects of the material world are created in the following sequence:

1. pradhāna, 2. mahat-tattva, 3. false-ego, 4. the tan-mātras, 5. the senses, and 6.
   the gross elements, beginning with ether. This sequence is given in the Subala-
   śruti and other scriptures. The sequence found in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad and
   other scriptures will also be discussed in order to show that sequence does not
   contradict what has already been said.
   Chāndogya Upaniṣad (6.2.1) explains: