CC Adi 1.9

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - Chapter 1: The Spiritual Masters

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 9

māyā-bhartājāṇḍa-saṅghāśrayāṅgaḥ

śete sākṣāt kāraṇāmbhodhi-madhye

yasyaikāṁśaḥ śrī-pumān ādi-devas

taṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye

SYNONYMS

māyā-bhartā — the master of the illusory energy; aja-aṇḍa-saṅgha — of the multitude of universes; āśraya — the shelter; aṅgaḥ — whose body; śete — He lies; sākṣāt — directly; kāraṇa-ambhodhi-madhye — in the midst of the Causal Ocean; yasya — whose; eka-aṁśaḥ — one portion; śrī-pumān — the Supreme Person; ādi-devaḥ — the original puruṣa incarnation; tam — to Him; śrī-nityānanda-rāmam — to Lord Balarāma in the form of Lord Nityānanda; prapadye — I surrender.

TRANSLATION

I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose partial representation called Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, lying on the Kāraṇa Ocean, is the original puruṣa, the master of the illusory energy, and the shelter of all the universes.

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