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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 6.11
সহায় করেন তাঁর লইয়া ‘প্রধান’ ।
কোটি ব্রহ্মাণ্ড করেন ইচ্ছায় নির্মাণ ॥ ১১ ॥
sahāya karena tāṅra la-iyā ‘pradhāna’
koṭi brahmāṇḍa karena icchāya nirmāṇa
He [Advaita Ācārya] helps in the pastimes of the puruṣa, with whose material energy and by whose will He creates innumerable universes.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Advaita Ācārya helps in the pastimes of the puruṣa.
He creates innumerable universes with the puruṣa’s material energy.
This creation takes place by the will of the puruṣa.
Devotional appeal. The glory of Advaita frames service as the deepest form of greatness.
The mood of Ādi 6 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:
The truth of Advaita Ācārya has been described in two verses. It is said that material nature has two features, namely the material cause and the efficient cause.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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How does the verse connect Advaita Ācārya’s creative activity with the puruṣa’s will?
Reread the translation and identify whose energy and whose will are involved in creation.
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