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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.17
‘নিমিত্তাংশে’ করে তেঁহো মায়াতে ঈক্ষণ ।
‘উপাদান’ অদ্বৈত করেন ব্রহ্মাণ্ড–সৃজন ॥ ১৭ ॥
‘nimittāṁśe’ kare teṅho māyāte īkṣaṇa
‘upādāna’ advaita karena brahmāṇḍa-sṛjana
Lord Viṣṇu, in His efficient aspect, glances over the material energy, and Śrī Advaita, as the material cause, creates the material world.
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Lord Viṣṇu acts in His efficient aspect.
In this aspect, He glances over the material energy.
Śrī Advaita, as the material cause, creates the material world.
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:
It is said that material nature has two features, namely the material cause and the efficient cause. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
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How does this verse clarify what the efficient and material causes do?
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