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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 18: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Visit to Śrī Vṛndāvana
Madhya 18.113Madhya 18.115

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.114

হ্লাদিন্যা সংবিদাশ্লিষ্টঃ সচ্চিদানন্দ ঈশ্বরঃ ।

স্বাবিদ্যা-সংবৃতো জীবঃ সংক্লেশনিকরাকরঃ ॥ ১১৪ ॥

hlādinyā saṁvid-āśliṣṭaḥ

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 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.’

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Divine Bliss and the Conditioned Soul

  1. 1

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme controller and is always full of transcendental bliss.

  2. 2

    He is accompanied by the potencies known as hlādinī and saṁvit.

  3. 3

    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.

Key points from the purport
  • This quotation of Viṣṇu Svāmī is cited in Śrīdhara Svāmī’s Bhāvārtha-dīpikā commentary on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.7.6).

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

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Madhya 18.114 quotesSB 1.7.6

This quotation of Viṣṇu Svāmī is cited in Śrīdhara Svāmī’s Bhāvārtha-dīpikā commentary on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.7.6).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.

The mood of Madhya 18 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 18: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Visit to Śrī Vṛndāvana

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

In this way, their Kṛṣṇa consciousness was awakened, and they could understand that a sannyāsī is simply a living entity and not the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took His bath at Akrūra-ghāṭa, He submerged Himself in the water for a long time.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. hlādinyāby the hlādinī potency
  2. saṁvitby the saṁvit potency
  3. āśliṣṭaḥsurrounded
  4. sat-cit-ānandaḥalways transcendentally blissful
  5. īśvaraḥthe supreme controller
  6. svaown
  7. avidyāby ignorance
  8. saṁvṛtaḥsurrounded
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the contrast between divine bliss and conditioned suffering help you understand?

Practice

Write down one contrast the verse gives between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the conditioned soul.

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