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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.58
সেই ত’ মায়ার দুইবিধ অবস্থিতি ।
জগতের উপাদান ‘প্রধান’, প্রকৃতি ॥ ৫৮ ॥
sei ta’ māyāra dui-vidha avasthiti
jagatera upādāna ‘pradhāna’, prakṛti
Māyā has two varieties of existence. One is called pradhāna or prakṛti. It supplies the ingredients of the material world.
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Māyā is the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is divided into two parts.
As the cause of the cosmic manifestation, this energy is known as māyā.
As the agent supplying the ingredients of the material world, this energy is known as pradhāna or prakṛti.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Ādi 5.58 quotesSB 11.24.1
An explicit description of these divisions of the external energy is given in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.24.1-4).
The purport of CC Ādi 5.58 quotesSB 10.63.26
Elsewhere in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.63.26) the ingredients and cause of the material cosmic manifestation are described as follows:
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Shelter and wonder. The glory of Nityānanda reveals the intimate support behind the descent.
The mood of Ādi 5 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:
As the source of the material elements, the material energy is known as pradhāna, and as the source of the manifestations of the material energy it is known as māyā. But material nature is inert in that she has no independent power to do anything.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does distinguishing these two roles help you understand the external energy?
Write down the two roles of the external energy, with the name used for each.
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