Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 16.82

ambujam ambuni jātaḿ

kvacid api na jātam ambujād ambu

mura-bhidi tad-viparītaḿ

pādāmbhojān mahā-nadī jātā

SYNONYMS

ambujam — lotus flower; ambuni — in the water; jātam — is grown; kvacit — at any time; api — certainly; na — not; jātam — grown; ambujāt — from a lotus flower; ambu — water; mura-bhidi — in Kṛṣṇa, the killer of Murāsura; tat-viparītam — just the opposite of that; pāda-ambhojāt — from the lotus flower of His feet; mahā-nadī — the great river; jātā — has grown.

TRANSLATION

"'Everyone knows that lotus flowers grow in the water but water never grows from a lotus. All such contradictions, however, are wonderfully possible in Kṛṣṇa: the great river Ganges has grown from His lotus feet.'

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