420 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

yasyaikamsah Sri-puman ddi-devas
tam Sri-nityGnanda-ramam prapadye

SYNONYMS

mayda-bhartd—the master of the illusory energy; a/anda-sangha—of the multitude
of universes; asraya—the shelter; aagah—whose body; Sete—He lies; saksdt—directly;
kGrana-ambhodhi-madhye—in the midst of the Causal Ocean; yasya—whose; eka-
amsah—one portion; $ri-pumdn—the Supreme Person; ddi-devah—the original purusa
incarnation; tam—to Him; $ri-nityGnanda-raémam—to Lord Balarama in the form of
Lord Nityananda; prapadye—\| surrender.

TRANSLATION

| offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Sri Nityananda Rama, whose partial
representation called Karanodakasayi Visnu, lying on the Karana Ocean, is the
original purusa, the master of the illusory energy, and the shelter of afl the universes.

TEXT 51

Cap-aifaca cae contfesa ata |
wreta atfeca ‘“stactiela’ ata ies

vaikuntha-bahire yei jyotir-maya dhama
tahara bahire ‘karanadrnava’ nama

SYNONYMS

vaikuntha-bahire—outside the Vaikuntha planets; yei—that; jyotih-maya dhdma—
impersonal Brahman effulgence; tadhara bahire—outside that effulgence; kdrana-
arnava nadma—an ocean called Karana.

TRANSLATION

Outside the Vaikuntha planets is the impersonal Brahman effulgence, and beyond
that effulgence is the Karana Ocean, or Causal Ocean.

PURPORT

The impersonal glowing effulgence known as impersonal Brahman is the outer
space of the Vaikuntha 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.

Karanodakasayi Visnu, who lies on the Causal Ocean, creates the universes merely
by glancing upon material nature. Therefore Krsna personally has nothing to do with
