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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 20.259
māyā-dvāre sṛje teńho brahmāṇḍera gaṇa
jaḍa-rūpā prakṛti nahe brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa
SYNONYMS
māyā-dvāre — by the agency of the external energy; sṛje — creates; teńho — Lord Sańkarṣaṇa; 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 Sańkarṣaṇa creates all the universes. The dull material energy — known in modern language as nature — is not the cause of the material universe.
Copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness