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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 6.13
কোটি অংশ, কোটি শক্তি, কোটি অবতার ।
এত লঞা সৃজে পুরুষ সকল সংসার ॥ ১৩ ॥
koṭi aṁśa, koṭi śakti, koṭi avatāra
eta lañā sṛje puruṣa sakala saṁsāra
Mahā-Viṣṇu creates the entire material world with millions of His parts, energies and incarnations.
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Mahā-Viṣṇu is the creator of the entire material world.
He creates with millions of His parts.
His energies and incarnations are also involved in this creation.
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 efficient causal activities are caused by Mahā-Viṣṇu, and the material causal activities are caused by another form of Mahā-Viṣṇu, known as Advaita. That Advaita, the superintendent of the cosmic manifestation, has descended in the form of Advaita Ācārya to associate with Lord Caitanya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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