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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
yasyaikāṁśaḥ śrī-pumān ādi-devas taṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye
SYNONYMS
māyā-bhartā —the master of the illusory energy;  ajāṇḍa-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.
TEXT 51
বৈকুণ্ঠ-বাহিরে যেই জ্যোতির্ময় ধাম । তাহার বাহিরে ‘কারণার্ণব’ নাম ॥ ৫১ ॥
vaikuṇṭha-bāhire yei jyotir-maya dhāma tāhāra bāhire ‘kāraṇārṇava’ nāma
SYNONYMS
vaikuṇṭha-bāhire —outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets;  yei —that;  jyotiḥ-maya dhāma —impersonal Brahman effulgence;  tāhāra bāhire —outside that effulgence;  kāraṇa-arṇava nāma —an ocean called Kāraṇa.
TRANSLATION
Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the impersonal Brahman effulgence, and beyond that effulgence is the Kāraṇa Ocean, or Causal Ocean.
PURPORT
The impersonal glowing effulgence known as impersonal Brahman is the outer space of the Vaikuṇṭha planets in the spiritual sky. Beyond that impersonal Brahman is the great Causal Ocean, which lies between the material and spiritual skies. The material nature is a by-product of this Causal Ocean.
Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lies on the Causal Ocean, creates the universes merely by glancing upon material nature. Therefore Kṛṣṇa personally has nothing to do with