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CC Adi 5.63 (1975)



His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 63

ghaṭera nimitta-hetu yaiche kumbhakāra
taiche jagatera kartā--puruṣāvatāra


SYNONYMS

ghaṭera—of the earthen pot; nimitta-hetu—original cause; yaiche—just as; kumbhakāra—the potter; taiche—similarly; jagatera kartā—the creator of the material world; puruṣa-avatāra—the puruṣa incarnation, or Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu.


TRANSLATION

Just as the original cause of an earthen pot is the potter, so the creator of the material world is the first puruṣa incarnation [Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu].