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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.61
অতএব কৃষ্ণ মূল–জগৎকারণ ।
প্রকৃতি—কারণ যৈছে অজাগলস্তন ॥ ৬১ ॥
ataeva kṛṣṇa mūla-jagat-kāraṇa
prakṛti — kāraṇa yaiche ajā-gala-stana
Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original cause of the cosmic manifestation. Prakṛti is like the nipples on the neck of a goat, for they cannot give any milk.
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Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original cause of the cosmic manifestation. His external energy, māyā-śakti, includes the ingredient-supplying portion and the causal portion.
Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī, Mahā-Viṣṇu, is the plenary expansion of Kṛṣṇa who activates all the material ingredients. Lord Viṣṇu activates material nature by the power of His glance.
Material nature has no independence to act without the touch of Viṣṇu. Like iron made red-hot by fire, it gains the power to act through contact with Him.
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 5.61 quotesSB 3.28.40
This is more clearly explained by Śrī Kapiladeva, an incarnation of Godhead, in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.28.40):
Quoted in the purport ofSB 2.10.45
prakṛti — kāraṇa yaiche ajā-gala-stana. Because Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu is a plenary expansion of Kṛṣṇa, it is He who electrifies the matter to put it in motion.
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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:
Therefore the material energy is not the original cause of the material manifestation. Rather, the transcendental glance of Mahā-Viṣṇu over material nature produces that cosmic manifestation.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the example of iron and fire help you see why material nature is not independent?
Write one sentence explaining why material nature cannot independently supply the material ingredients.
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