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CC Madhya 25.51

Bengali

‘ন্যায়’ কহে, — ‘পরমাণু হৈতে বিশ্ব হয়’ ।
‘মায়াবাদী’ নির্বিশেষ-ব্রহ্মে ‘হেতু’ কয় ॥ ৫১ ॥

Text

‘nyāya’ kahe, — ‘paramāṇu haite viśva haya’
‘māyāvādī’ nirviśeṣa-brahme ‘hetu’ kaya

Synonyms

nyāya kahe — the philosophers following logic say; paramāṇu — the atom; haite — from; viśva haya — the cosmic manifestation has come; māyāvādī — the Māyāvādī philosophers, impersonalists; nirviśeṣa-brahme — in the impersonal Brahman effulgence; hetu — the cause; kaya — say.

Translation

“The followers of nyāya, the philosophy of logic, maintain that the atom is the cause of the cosmic manifestation, and the Māyāvādī philosophers maintain that the impersonal Brahman effulgence is the cause of the cosmic manifestation.