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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.75
বলদেব–প্রকাশ—পরমব্যোমে ‘সঙ্কর্ষণ’ ।
তেঁহ—বিশ্বের উপাদান–নিমিত্ত–কারণ ॥ ৭৫ ॥
baladeva-prakāśa — parama-vyome ‘saṅkarṣaṇa’
teṅha — viśvera upādāna-nimitta-kāraṇa
The expansion of Baladeva known as Saṅkarṣaṇa in the spiritual world is the ingredient and immediate cause of this material cosmic manifestation.
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Saṅkarṣaṇa is an expansion of Baladeva in the spiritual world.
He is the ingredient cause of this material cosmic manifestation.
He is also its immediate cause.
Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.
The mood of Ādi 13 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
After her ninth pregnancy she gave birth to a son, who was named Viśvarūpa. Then, in 1407 Śaka Era (A.D. 1486), in the full-moon evening of the month of Phālguna, with the constellation of Siṁha (Leo) on the horizon, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared as the son of Śrī Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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