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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.18
যদ্যপি সাংখ্য মানে, ‘প্রধান’—কারণ ।
জড় হইতে কভু নহে জগৎ–সৃজন ॥ ১৮ ॥
yadyapi sāṅkhya māne, ‘pradhāna’ — kāraṇa
jaḍa ha-ite kabhu nahe jagat-sṛjana
Although the Sāṅkhya philosophy accepts that the material ingredients are the cause, the creation of the world never arises from dead matter.
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The Sāṅkhya philosophy accepts the material ingredients as the cause of creation.
Yet the creation of the world never arises from dead matter.
Material ingredients alone cannot account for the world's creation.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 5.18.38
In Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 6.18-19) the creation of the material world is explained as follows: “Atheistic Sāṅkhya philosophers think that the total material energy causes the cosmic manifestation, but they are wrong.
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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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