CC Madhya 8.87
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Madhya-līlā - Chapter 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 87
- ākāśādira guṇa yena para-para bhūte
- dui-tina krame bāḍe pañca pṛthivīte
SYNONYMS
ākāśa-ādira — of the sky, air and so on; guṇa — the qualities; yena — just as; para-para — one after another; bhūte — in the material elements; dui-tina — two and then three; krame — by gradations; bāḍe — increase; pañca — all five; pṛthivīte — in earth.
TRANSLATION
“The qualities in the material elements—sky, air, fire, water and earth—increase one after another by a gradual process of one, two and three, and at the last stage, in the element earth, all five qualities are completely visible.