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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

Antya 5.126 Antya 5.128

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 5.127

“হ্লাদিন্যা সম্বিদাশ্লিষ্টঃ সচ্চিদানন্দ ঈশ্বরঃ ।

স্বাবিদ্যা-সংবৃতো জীবঃ সংক্লেশনিকরাকরঃ ।।” ১২৭ ।। ॥ ১২৭ ॥

“hlādinyā samvidāśliṣṭaḥ

sac-cid-ānanda-īśvaraḥ

svāvidyā saṁvṛto jīvaḥ

saṅkleśa-nikarākaraḥ”

Translation

“ ‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, is always full of transcendental bliss and is accompanied by the potencies known as hlādinī and samvit. 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.’”

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord’s Bliss and Our Conditioned Suffering

1
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme controller and is always full of transcendental bliss.
2
The Lord is accompanied by the potencies known as hlādinī and samvit.
3
The conditioned soul is covered by ignorance and troubled by the threefold miseries of life. The verse describes him as a treasure house of tribulations.

Key points from the purport

This verse is found in Śrīdhara Svāmī’s Bhāvārtha-dīpikā (1.7.6), wherein he quotes Śrī Viṣṇu Svāmī.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Humility and discernment. The Lord directs a seeker to Rāmānanda and clarifies genuine spiritual qualification.

The mood of Antya 5 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Then Pradyumna Miśra went to see Rāmānanda Rāya again to hear about the transcendental truth from him. A brāhmaṇa from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and went to Jagannātha Purī to show it to the associates of the Lord.

Read the whole chapter summary Back to this verse in Antya 5

Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

hlādinyāby the hlādinī potency
samvidāby the samvit potency
āśliṣṭaḥsurrounded
sat-cit-ānandaḥalways transcendentally blissful
īśvaraḥthe supreme controller
svaown
avidyāby ignorance
saṁvṛtaḥsurrounded

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this verse challenge the idea that the Lord shares our conditioned suffering?

Practice

Read the translation slowly, noting the contrast between the Lord’s bliss and the conditioned soul’s tribulations.

Live this todayThe Lord’s Bliss and Our Conditioned SufferingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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