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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 5.66
এক অঙ্গাভাসে করে মায়াতে মিলন ।
মায়া হৈতে জন্মে তবে ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের গণ ॥ ৬৬ ॥
eka aṅgābhāse kare māyāte milana
māyā haite janme tabe brahmāṇḍera gaṇa
The reflected rays of His body mix with māyā, and thus māyā gives birth to myriad universes.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The cosmic manifestation is caused by the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, through His specific energies. Material nature does not work independently.
His energy is exhibited in three ways: spiritual, material and marginal. The Absolute Truth is identical with His spiritual energy.
Material energy works only when contacted by spiritual energy. Living entities belong to the marginal energy and, under material control, wander in forgetfulness.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
Mahā-Viṣṇu places His glance over the material energy, and by a reflection of His transcendental body He amalgamates Himself within the material elements. 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.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 this teaching change the way I see material nature?
Look at one thing in nature today and recall that material energy works only through contact with spiritual energy.
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