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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.16
আপনে পুরুষ—বিশ্বের ‘নিমিত্ত’–কারণ ।
অদ্বৈত–রূপে ‘উপাদান’ হন নারায়ণ ॥ ১৬ ॥
āpane puruṣa — viśvera ‘nimitta’-kāraṇa
advaita-rūpe ‘upādāna’ hana nārāyaṇa
Lord Viṣṇu Himself is the efficient [nimitta] cause of the material world, and Nārāyaṇa in the form of Śrī Advaita is the material cause [upādāna].
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Lord Viṣṇu Himself is the efficient cause of the material world.
Nārāyaṇa in the form of Śrī Advaita is the material cause.
The verse calls the efficient cause nimitta and the material cause upādāna.
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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Make two short notes: “nimitta — Lord Viṣṇu” and “upādāna — Nārāyaṇa in the form of Śrī Advaita.”
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