Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 15.180
The Lord’s Internal Potency Conquers Ignorance
“Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “ ‘O my Lord, O unconquerable one, O master of all potencies, please exhibit Your internal potency to conquer the nescience of all moving and inert living entities. Due to nescience, they accept all kinds of faulty things, thus provoking a fearful situation. O Lord, please show Your glories! You can do this very easily, for Your internal potency is beyond the external potency, and You are the reservoir of all opulence. You are also the demonstrator of the material potency. You are also always engaged in Your pastimes in the spiritual world, where You exhibit Your reserved, internal potency, and sometimes You exhibit the external potency by glancing over it. Thus You manifest Your pastimes. The Vedas confirm Your two potencies and accept both types of pastimes due to them.’””
What the purport teaches
- The personified Vedas glorify the Lord in this prayer. They ask Him to exhibit His internal potency to overcome the ignorance of moving and inert living entities.
- Through ignorance, living entities accept faulty things and create a fearful situation. The Lord can easily overcome this ignorance because His internal potency is beyond His external potency.
- The Lord is the reservoir of all opulence and is always engaged in pastimes in the spiritual world. The Vedas affirm both His internal and external potencies and the pastimes manifested through them.
Try this today
Offer a brief prayer asking the Lord to overcome your ignorance through His internal potency.
Ask yourself
What faulty thing might I be accepting through ignorance?
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.