Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 18.114
Divine Bliss and the Conditioned Soul
“ ‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, is always full of transcendental bliss and is accompanied by the potencies known as hlādinī and saṁvit. The conditioned soul, however, is always covered by ignorance and embarrassed by the threefold miseries of life. Thus he is a treasure-house of all kinds of tribulations.’
What the purport teaches
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme controller and is always full of transcendental bliss.
- He is accompanied by the potencies known as hlādinī and saṁvit.
- The conditioned soul is covered by ignorance and troubled by the threefold miseries of life. The verse describes this soul as a treasure-house of tribulations.
Try this today
Write down one contrast the verse gives between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the conditioned soul.
Ask yourself
What does the contrast between divine bliss and conditioned suffering help you understand?
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.