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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.103
জীবশক্তি তটস্থাখ্য, নাহি যার অন্ত ।
মুখ্য তিন শক্তি, তার বিভেদ অনন্ত ॥ ১০৩ ॥
jīva-śakti taṭasthākhya, nāhi yāra anta
mukhya tina śakti, tāra vibheda ananta
“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.
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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.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Revelatory awe. The identity of Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa is established; wonder becomes theological confidence.
The mood of Ādi 2 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Lord Caitanya is directly the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, as the evidence of authoritative scriptures proves. This chapter stresses that a devotee who wishes to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness must have knowledge of Kṛṣṇa’s personal form, His three principal energies, His pastimes and the relationship of the living entities with Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What hope do you find in the opportunity to go back to the Personality of Godhead?
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.
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