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Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā, Chapter 20: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth

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CC Madhya 20.260

His Divine Grace
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.