Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 5.76

garbhoda-kshiroda-sayi donhe 'purusha' nama

sei dui, yanra amsa, -- vishnu, visva-dhama

SYNONYMS

garbha-uda -- in the ocean known as Garbhodaka within the universe; kshira-uda-sayi -- one who lies in the ocean of milk; donhe -- both of Them; purusha nama -- known as purusha, Lord Vishnu; sei -- those; dui -- two; yanra amsa -- whose plenary portions; vishnu visva-dhama -- Lord Vishnu, the abode of the total universes.

TRANSLATION

Garbhodasayi and Kshirodasayi are both called purushas. They are plenary portions of Karanodasayi Vishnu, the first purusha, who is the abode of all the universes.

PURPORT

The symptoms of the purusha are described in the Laghu-bhagavatamrita. While describing the incarnations of the Supreme personality of Godhead, the author has quoted from the Vishnu Purana (6.8.59), where it is said, "Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Purushottama, Lord Krishna, who is always free from the contamination of the six material dualities; whose plenary expansion, Maha-Vishnu, glances over matter to create the cosmic manifestation; who expands Himself in various transcendental forms, all of which are one and the same; who is the master of all living entities; who is always free and liberated from the contamination of material energy; and who, when He appears in this material world, seems one of us, although He has an eternally spiritual, blissful, transcendental form." In summarizing this statement, Rupa Gosvami has concluded that the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who acts in cooperation with the material energy is called the purusha.

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