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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.8
যে পুরুষ সৃষ্টি–স্থিতি করেন মায়ায় ।
অনন্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড সৃষ্টি করেন লীলায় ॥ ৮ ॥
ye puruṣa sṛṣṭi-sthiti karena māyāya
ananta brahmāṇḍa sṛṣṭi karena līlāya
That puruṣa creates and maintains with His external energy. He creates innumerable universes in His pastimes.
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That puruṣa creates with His external energy.
He also maintains with His external energy.
He creates innumerable universes in His pastimes.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What inspires wonder in me about His creating innumerable universes in His pastimes?
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