Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 2.103
Living Beings Are the Marginal Potency
“The marginal potency, which is between these two, consists of the numberless living beings. These are the three principal energies, which have unlimited categories and subdivisions.
What the purport teaches
- The marginal potency consists of numberless living beings and lies between the other two energies. The three principal energies have unlimited categories and subdivisions.
- The internal potency, called cit-śakti or antaraṅga-śakti, displays variety in the transcendental Vaikuṇṭha cosmos. Unlimited liberated living beings associate with the Personality of Godhead in His innumerable features.
- The material cosmos displays the external energy. Conditioned living beings are given full liberty to go back to the Personality of Godhead after leaving the material body.
Try this today
Take a quiet moment to reflect on yourself as a living being of the marginal potency, with the opportunity to return to the Personality of Godhead.
Ask yourself
What hope do you find in the opportunity to go back to the Personality of Godhead?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.