CC Madhya 20.259 (1975)
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (1975) - Madhya-līlā - Chapter 20: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 259
- māyā-dvāre sṛje teṅho brahmāṇḍera gaṇa
- jaḍa-rūpā prakṛti nahe brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa
SYNONYMS
māyā-dvāre—by the agency of the external energy; sṛje—creates; teṅho—Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa; brahmāṇḍera gaṇa—all the groups of universes; jaḍa-rūpā—appearing dull; prakṛti—the material energy; nahe—is not; brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa—the cause of the cosmic manifestation.
TRANSLATION
"By the agency of the material energy, this same Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa creates all the universes. The dull material energy-known in modern language as nature-is not the cause of the material universe.