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{
    "name":"karana",
    "h1":"karana",
    "title":"karana",
    "description":"action; causing; instrumental; of the senses; such action."
}
---

==== karaṇa  ====
  * action --- [[books:cc:antya:8:77|Antya 8.77]]
  * causing --- [[books:cc:antya:2:168|Antya 2.168]]
  * instrumental --- [[books:cc:madhya:6:144|Madhya 6.144]]
  * of the senses --- [[books:sb:5:5:27|SB 5.5.27]], [[books:sb:5:13:24|SB 5.13.24]]
  * such action --- [[books:cc:adi:7:98|Ādi 7.98]], [[books:cc:madhya:24:37|Madhya 24.37]]

==== karāna  ====
  * cause --- [[books:cc:adi:1:98|Ādi 1.98]]
  * causes --- [[books:cc:madhya:8:212|Madhya 8.212]], [[books:cc:madhya:12:178|Madhya 12.178]], [[books:cc:antya:1:76|Antya 1.76]]

==== karāñā  ====
  * bringing about --- [[books:cc:antya:20:53|Antya 20.53]]
  * causing to do --- [[books:cc:madhya:4:205|Madhya 4.205]]
  * finishing --- [[books:cc:madhya:4:61|Madhya 4.61]]
  * inducing --- [[books:cc:madhya:9:66|Madhya 9.66]]

==== kāraṇa  ====
  * because --- [[books:cc:madhya:20:126|Madhya 20.126]]
  * cause --- [[books:bg:13:21|Bg. 13.21]], [[books:sb:2:5:19|SB 2.5.19]], [[books:sb:3:5:29|SB 3.5.29]], [[books:cc:adi:4:14|Ādi 4.14]], [[books:cc:adi:4:221|Ādi 4.221]], [[books:cc:adi:5:60|Ādi 5.60]], [[books:cc:adi:5:61|Ādi 5.61]], [[books:cc:adi:6:18|Ādi 6.18]], [[books:cc:adi:8:26|Ādi 8.26]], [[books:cc:madhya:9:122|Madhya 9.122]], [[books:cc:madhya:9:239-240|Madhya 9.239-240]], [[books:cc:madhya:17:128|Madhya 17.128]]
  * for reasons like raising the earth from the ocean --- [[books:sb:3:19:37|SB 3.19.37]]
  * for the reason --- [[books:cc:madhya:4:127|Madhya 4.127]]
  * for the reason of lifting the earth --- [[books:sb:3:14:1|SB 3.14.1]]
  * instruments --- [[books:cc:adi:4:79|Ādi 4.79]]
  * of causes --- [[books:cc:madhya:8:137|Madhya 8.137]]
  * of the causes --- [[books:sb:6:9:38|SB 6.9.38]]
  * reason --- [[books:cc:adi:1:26|Ādi 1.26]], [[books:cc:adi:2:35|Ādi 2.35]], [[books:cc:adi:2:43|Ādi 2.43]], [[books:cc:adi:4:36-37|Ādi 4.36-37]], [[books:cc:adi:7:70|Ādi 7.70]], [[books:cc:adi:7:71|Ādi 7.71]], [[books:cc:adi:12:67|Ādi 12.67]], [[books:cc:adi:17:176|Ādi 17.176]], [[books:cc:adi:17:315|Ādi 17.315]], [[books:cc:adi:17:316|Ādi 17.316]], [[books:cc:madhya:2:29|Madhya 2.29]]
  * the cause --- [[books:sb:7:15:63|SB 7.15.63]], [[books:cc:adi:2:37|Ādi 2.37]], [[books:cc:adi:2:90|Ādi 2.90]], [[books:cc:adi:4:49|Ādi 4.49]], [[books:cc:adi:4:217|Ādi 4.217]], [[books:cc:adi:5:59|Ādi 5.59]], [[books:cc:adi:12:8|Ādi 12.8]], [[books:cc:madhya:1:195|Madhya 1.195]], [[books:cc:madhya:2:63|Madhya 2.63]], [[books:cc:madhya:8:158|Madhya 8.158]], [[books:cc:madhya:8:271|Madhya 8.271]], [[books:cc:madhya:10:169|Madhya 10.169]], [[books:cc:madhya:20:189|Madhya 20.189]], [[books:cc:madhya:20:221|Madhya 20.221]], [[books:cc:madhya:20:319|Madhya 20.319]], [[books:cc:madhya:25:50|Madhya 25.50]], [[books:cc:antya:3:170|Antya 3.170]], [[books:cc:antya:18:46|Antya 18.46]]
  * the reason --- [[books:cc:adi:14:19|Ādi 14.19]], [[books:cc:adi:17:197|Ādi 17.197]], [[books:cc:antya:9:85|Antya 9.85]]
  * the senses --- [[books:sb:3:26:8|SB 3.26.8]]
  * the source --- [[books:cc:adi:1:82|Ādi 1.82]]
  * to the reason --- [[books:cc:adi:2:39|Ādi 2.39]]

==== karāna bhojana  ====
  * gives food for eating --- [[books:cc:madhya:25:206|Madhya 25.206]]
  * makes to eat --- [[books:cc:antya:2:87|Antya 2.87]]

==== karāṅa daraśana  ====
  * I shall show --- [[books:cc:antya:16:82|Antya 16.82]]

==== kāraṇa ihāra  ====
  * the reason for this --- [[books:cc:madhya:14:122|Madhya 14.122]], [[books:cc:antya:3:261|Antya 3.261]]

==== karāñā sammilana  ====
  * causing to meet together --- [[books:cc:antya:19:47|Antya 19.47]]

==== karāna śikṣaṇa  ====
  * He was teaching them --- [[books:cc:madhya:12:115|Madhya 12.115]]

==== karāna snāna  ====
  * bathes them --- [[books:cc:antya:5:17|Antya 5.17]]

==== kāraṇa-abdhi  ====
  * Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:madhya:15:175|Madhya 15.175]]
  * Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu --- [[books:cc:adi:2:49|Ādi 2.49]]

==== kāraṇa-abdhi-pāre  ====
  * on one bank of the Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:madhya:20:269|Madhya 20.269]]

==== kāraṇa-abdhi-śāyī  ====
  * Kāraṇābdhiśāyī --- [[books:cc:madhya:20:268|Madhya 20.268]]
  * Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu, lying on the Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:madhya:20:282|Madhya 20.282]]
  * Lord Viṣṇu lying on the Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:adi:6:91|Ādi 6.91]]

==== kāraṇa-abdhira  ====
  * to the Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:adi:5:57|Ādi 5.57]]

==== kāraṇa-ambhodhi-madhye  ====
  * in the midst of the Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:adi:1:9|Ādi 1.9]], [[books:cc:adi:5:50|Ādi 5.50]]

==== karaṇa-apāṭava  ====
  * imperfectness of the senses --- [[books:cc:adi:2:86|Ādi 2.86]]
  * inefficiency of the material senses --- [[books:cc:adi:7:107|Ādi 7.107]]

==== kāraṇa-arṇava nāma  ====
  * an ocean called Kāraṇa --- [[books:cc:adi:5:51|Ādi 5.51]]

==== kāraṇa-arṇave  ====
  * in the ocean of cause, or Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:adi:5:55|Ādi 5.55]]

==== karaṇa-āśayaḥ  ====
  * the senses and the mind --- [[books:sb:1:13:56|SB 1.13.56]]

==== kāraṇa-ātmane  ====
  * the supreme cause of all causes --- [[books:sb:4:24:42|SB 4.24.42]]

==== kāraṇa-bhūtaḥ  ====
  * existing as the cause --- [[books:sb:6:9:38|SB 6.9.38]]

==== karaṇa-kalāpaḥ  ====
  * all the senses --- [[books:sb:5:8:22|SB 5.8.22]]

==== karaṇa-lakṣaṇa  ====
  * the characteristics of constructing --- [[books:cc:madhya:24:343|Madhya 24.343]]

==== kāraṇa-samudra  ====
  * the Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:adi:5:57|Ādi 5.57]]

==== kāraṇa-sūkarāya  ====
  * unto the hog form assumed for reasons --- [[books:sb:3:13:34|SB 3.13.34]]

==== kāraṇa-toya-śāyī  ====
  * Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lies in the Causal Ocean --- [[books:cc:adi:1:7|Ādi 1.7]], [[books:cc:adi:5:7|Ādi 5.7]]

==== kāraṇa-vigrahāya  ====
  * to one whose body emanates from the Supreme Person, the cause of all causes --- [[books:sb:5:12:1|SB 5.12.1]]

==== ācamana karāñā  ====
  * washing the mouth, hands and legs of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu --- [[books:cc:madhya:15:254|Madhya 15.254]]

==== āhāra karāñā  ====
  * getting someone to eat --- [[books:cc:antya:8:73|Antya 8.73]]

==== akārya-karaṇa  ====
  * an action You have never done before --- [[books:cc:madhya:5:96|Madhya 5.96]]

==== antaḥ-karaṇa  ====
  * heart --- [[books:sb:4:24:62|SB 4.24.62]]
  * mind, heart --- [[books:sb:4:17:34|SB 4.17.34]]

==== antaḥ-karaṇa-kuhare  ====
  * in the core of the heart --- [[books:cc:antya:3:62|Antya 3.62]]

==== antaḥ-karaṇa-saraṇī-pānthatām  ====
  * a traveler on the path of the heart --- [[books:cc:madhya:19:165|Madhya 19.165]]

==== asmat-karaṇa-gocaram  ====
  * appreciable by our direct senses, especially by our eyes --- [[books:sb:8:5:45|SB 8.5.45]]

==== aviddhā-karaṇa  ====
  * performing the pure Ekādaśī --- [[books:cc:madhya:24:342|Madhya 24.342]]

==== bhadra karāñā  ====
  * making gentle --- [[books:cc:madhya:20:70|Madhya 20.70]]

==== bhikṣā karāñā  ====
  * after giving lunch --- [[books:cc:madhya:9:353|Madhya 9.353]]
  * after offering //prasāda// --- [[books:cc:madhya:6:46|Madhya 6.46]]
  * after offering lunch --- [[books:cc:madhya:9:84|Madhya 9.84]]
  * after offering the lunch --- [[books:cc:madhya:19:249|Madhya 19.249]]

==== bhojana karāñā  ====
  * feeding --- [[books:cc:madhya:3:204|Madhya 3.204]], [[books:cc:antya:15:94|Antya 15.94]]

==== brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa  ====
  * the cause of the cosmic manifestation --- [[books:cc:madhya:20:259|Madhya 20.259]]

==== caitanya-lilā-varṇana-kāraṇa  ====
  * the reason for describing Caitanya Mahāprabhu's pastimes --- [[books:cc:adi:17:321|Ādi 17.321]]

==== cchidā-karaṇa  ====
  * in causing the cutting --- [[books:cc:antya:1:168|Antya 1.168]]

==== daitya-dānava-kula-tīrthī-karaṇa-śīlā-caritaḥ  ====
  * whose activities and character were so exalted that he delivered all the //daityas// (demons) born in his family --- [[books:sb:5:18:7|SB 5.18.7]]

==== duḥkhera kāraṇa  ====
  * causes of suffering --- [[books:cc:adi:5:150|Ādi 5.150]]
  * the cause of unhappiness --- [[books:cc:antya:15:16|Antya 15.16]]

==== ghaṭera kāraṇa  ====
  * the cause of the earthen pot --- [[books:cc:adi:5:64|Ādi 5.64]]

==== ithe ki kāraṇa  ====
  * what must be the reason for this --- [[books:cc:madhya:9:124|Madhya 9.124]]

==== jagat-kāraṇa  ====
  * is the original cause of material creation --- [[books:cc:madhya:20:268|Madhya 20.268]]
  * the cause of the cosmic manifestation --- [[books:cc:adi:5:61|Ādi 5.61]]
  * the cause of the material cosmic manifestation --- [[books:cc:adi:5:56|Ādi 5.56]]
  * the cause of the material creation --- [[books:cc:madhya:21:38|Madhya 21.38]]
  * the cause of the material world --- [[books:cc:adi:5:100-101|Ādi 5.100-101]], [[books:cc:adi:5:106|Ādi 5.106]]
  * the cause of the universe --- [[books:cc:adi:2:102|Ādi 2.102]]

==== kāraṇera kāraṇa  ====
  * the cause of all causes --- [[books:cc:adi:5:42|Ādi 5.42]], [[books:cc:madhya:18:193|Madhya 18.193]]

==== ki kāraṇa  ====
  * what is the reason --- [[books:cc:madhya:11:109|Madhya 11.109]], [[books:cc:madhya:12:17|Madhya 12.17]]

==== madhyāhna karāñā  ====
  * after arranging for His bath --- [[books:cc:madhya:19:84|Madhya 19.84]]

==== mukhya kāraṇa  ====
  * the original cause --- [[books:cc:adi:6:20|Ādi 6.20]]

==== muktira kāraṇa  ====
  * the cause of liberation --- [[books:cc:antya:5:155|Antya 5.155]]

==== mūla kāraṇa  ====
  * the root cause --- [[books:cc:madhya:14:173|Madhya 14.173]]

==== nāma-karaṇa  ====
  * the name-giving ceremony --- [[books:cc:adi:14:18|Ādi 14.18]]

==== nimitta kāraṇa  ====
  * the original cause --- [[books:cc:adi:6:16|Ādi 6.16]]

==== nimitta-kāraṇa  ====
  * immediate cause --- [[books:cc:adi:5:62|Ādi 5.62]], [[books:cc:adi:13:75|Ādi 13.75]]

==== niścaya-karaṇa  ====
  * final decision --- [[books:cc:adi:17:24|Ādi 17.24]]

==== parama kāraṇa  ====
  * original cause --- [[books:cc:adi:5:54|Ādi 5.54]]
  * the supreme cause, the cause of all causes --- [[books:cc:madhya:25:55|Madhya 25.55]]

==== pātaka-kāraṇa  ====
  * cause of sinful activities --- [[books:cc:antya:4:60|Antya 4.60]]

==== phalī-karaṇa  ====
  * the chaff of rice --- [[books:sb:5:9:11|SB 5.9.11]]

==== prema. utpatti-kāraṇa  ====
  * the causes of awakening the loving propensity --- [[books:cc:antya:1:140|Antya 1.140]]

==== sākṣāt-karaṇa  ====
  * by meeting --- [[books:cc:antya:3:197|Antya 3.197]]

==== sannyāsa-karaṇa  ====
  * accepting the //sannyāsa// order --- [[books:cc:madhya:1:91|Madhya 1.91]]

==== sarva-kāraṇa  ====
  * all causes --- [[books:sb:3:11:42|SB 3.11.42]]

==== sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam  ====
  * the cause of all causes --- [[books:cc:adi:2:107|Ādi 2.107]], [[books:cc:madhya:20:154|Madhya 20.154]], [[books:cc:madhya:21:35|Madhya 21.35]]

==== sarva-kāraṇa-pradhāna  ====
  * the supreme cause of all causes --- [[books:cc:madhya:8:134|Madhya 8.134]]

==== sevāra kāraṇa  ====
  * for the purpose of service --- [[books:cc:adi:5:152|Ādi 5.152]]

==== snāna bhojana karāñā  ====
  * inducing to bathe and take //prasāda// --- [[books:cc:antya:2:141|Antya 2.141]]

==== snāna karāñā  ====
  * bathing Him --- [[books:cc:antya:15:93|Antya 15.93]]
  * causing to bathe --- [[books:cc:antya:18:119|Antya 18.119]]

==== śubhera kāraṇa  ====
  * the cause of all good fortune --- [[books:cc:antya:20:150|Antya 20.150]]

==== ṭhākura darśana karāñā  ====
  * after inducing him to see the Deity --- [[books:cc:antya:6:148|Antya 6.148]]

==== utkaṇṭhā-kāraṇa  ====
  * the cause of great anxiety and restlessness --- [[books:cc:antya:15:12|Antya 15.12]]

==== vaiṣṇava-karaṇa  ====
  * making Vaiṣṇavas --- [[books:cc:madhya:25:261|Madhya 25.261]]