SB 7.15.63 · Srimad Bhagavatam

Devanagari

कार्यकारणवस्त्वैक्यदर्शनं पटतन्तुवत् । अवस्तुत्वाद्विकल्पस्य भावाद्वैतं तदुच्यते ॥ ६३ ॥

Verse text

kārya-kāraṇa-vastv-aikya- darśanaṁ paṭa-tantuvat avastutvād vikalpasya bhāvādvaitaṁ tad ucyate

Synonyms

kārya — the result or effect ; kāraṇa — the cause ; vastu — substance ; aikya — oneness ; darśanam — observation ; paṭa — the cloth ; tantu — the thread ; vat — like ; avastutvāt — because of being ultimately unreality ; vikalpasya — of differentiation ; bhāva — advaitam — the conception of oneness ; tat ucyate — that is called .

Translation

When one understands that result and cause are one and that duality is ultimately unreal, like the idea that the threads of a cloth are different from the cloth itself, one reaches the conception of oneness called bhāvādvaita.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Non-difference of conception means seeing the effect and the cause as one, like threads related to a cloth, since all these are unreal, arising from misconception. One considers effect and cause to be one. The thread (cause) is not the cloth (effect), but can be seen as one with it. There is oneness of the effect and cause of prakṛti.