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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.76
গর্ভোদ–ক্ষীরোদশায়ী দোঁহে ‘পুরুষ’ নাম ।
সেই দুই, যাঁর অংশ,—বিষ্ণু, বিশ্বধাম ॥ ৭৬ ॥
garbhoda-kṣīroda-śāyī doṅhe ‘puruṣa’ nāma
sei dui, yāṅra aṁśa, — viṣṇu, viśva-dhāma
Garbhodaśāyī and Kṣīrodaśāyī are both called puruṣas. They are plenary portions of Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu, the first puruṣa, who is the abode of all the universes.
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Garbhodaśāyī and Kṣīrodaśāyī are plenary portions of Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu, the first puruṣa and the abode of all the universes.
Lord Kṛṣṇa is always free from material contamination. His plenary expansion, Mahā-Viṣṇu, glances over matter to create the cosmic manifestation.
Rūpa Gosvāmī concludes that the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who acts in cooperation with material energy is called the puruṣa.
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:
In that abode the Personality of Godhead expands Himself into four plenary portions — Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma, Pradyumna (the transcendental Cupid) and Aniruddha. They are known as the original quadruple forms.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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How does this purport help you distinguish acting upon material energy from being contaminated by it?
Offer respectful obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa, remembering His eternally spiritual, blissful, transcendental form.
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