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

complete non-difference). This means that because there is no difference in Their
personalities, the same Lord Hari and the same associates present in the previous
actions are also present in the subsequent actions. That Lord Hari remains one
even though He expands into many forms is confirmed in the Gopāla-tāpanī
Upaniṣad in these words:
eko 'pi san bahudhā yo 'vabhāti
"Although He is one, the Supreme Lord appears in many forms."
Also, in the Smṛti-śāstra it is said:
ekāneka-svarūpāya
"Although He is one, the Supreme Lord appears in many forms."
This is also true of the Lord's liberated associates, who remain one even though
they appear in many forms. In the Bhūma-vidyā (Chāndogya Upaniṣad 7.26.2) this
is said of the liberated souls. In the Smṛti-śāstra this is also said in the description
of the Lord's marriage with many princesses and in other pastimes also. In this
way the Lord and the liberated souls can, retaining Their identities, expand
themselves to be present eternally in different places in time. The sentence "It was
twice-cooked" is understood by an intelligent person to mean that one thing was
cooked twice, not that two separate foods were separately cooked. In the same way
the sentence, "He called out the word `cow' twice," means that one cow was
addressed twice, not that two cows were addressed. In this way Lord Hari, His
eternal associates, and His transcendental abodes all retain their identities even
though they are manifested in many different places and perform activities that are
all eternal even though their activities have a beginning and an end. In this way it
is said that a wonderful variety of transcendental mellows are manifested by this
sequence of eternal events. It is not that these ideas do not have their root in the
descriptions of scripture. In the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad (3.8.3) it is said:
yad bhūtaṁ bhavac ca bhaviṣyac ca
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead exists in the past, present, and future."
In the Atharva Veda it is said:
eko devo nitya-līlānuraktaḥ