CC Adi 16.82 (1975)

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (1975) - Ādi-līlā - Chapter 16: The Pastimes of the Lord in His Childhood and Youth

Ādi-līlā 16.81 - Ādi-līlā 16.83

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 82

ambujam ambuni jātaṁ kvacid api na jātam ambujād ambu

mura-bhidi tad-viparītaṁ pādāmbhojān mahā-nadī jātā

SYNONYMS

ambujam—lotus flower; ambuni—in the water; jātam—is grown; kvacit—at any time; api—certainly; na—not; jātam—grown; ambujāt—from a lotus flower; ambu—water; mura-bhidi—in Kṛṣṇa, the killer of Murāsura; tat-viparītam—just the opposite of that; pāda-ambhojāt—from the lotus flower of His feet; mahā-nadī—the great river; jātā—has grown.

TRANSLATION

" 'Everyone knows that lotus flowers grow in the water but water never grows from a lotus. All such contradictions, however, are wonderfully possible in Kṛṣṇa: the great river Ganges has grown from His lotus feet.'

Ādi-līlā 16.81 - Ādi-līlā 16.83