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  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 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.156Madhya 6.158

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.157

হ্লাদিনী সন্ধিনী সম্বিৎ ত্বয্যেকা সর্বসংশ্রয়ে ।

হ্লাদতাপকরী মিশ্রা ত্বয়ি নো গুণ-বর্জিতে ॥ ১৫৭ ॥

hlādinī sandhinī samvit

tvayy ekā sarva-saṁśraye

hlāda-tāpa-karī miśrā

tvayi no guṇa-varjite

Translation

“ ‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. This means that He originally has three potencies — the pleasure potency, the potency of eternality and the potency of knowledge. Together these are called the cit potency, and they are present in full in the Supreme Lord. For the living entities, who are part and parcel of the Lord, the pleasure potency in the material world is sometimes displeasing and sometimes mixed. This is not the case with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because He is not under the influence of the material energy or its modes.’

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord’s Spiritual Potencies Are Always Full

  1. 1

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. He originally possesses the potencies of pleasure, eternality and knowledge.

  2. 2

    Together these are called the cit potency, and they are present in full in the Supreme Lord.

  3. 3

    For living entities, who are His parts and parcels, pleasure in the material world is sometimes displeasing or mixed. The Supreme Lord is never under material energy or its modes.

How it feels

Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.

The mood of Madhya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

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

The greatest mistake made by the Māyāvādī philosophers is in conceiving the Absolute Truth to be impersonal and without energy. In all the Vedas, the unlimited energies of the Absolute Truth have been accepted.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. hlādinīthe pleasure potency
  2. sandhinīthe eternity potency
  3. samvitthe knowledge potency
  4. tvayiin You
  5. ekāone spiritual (cit) potency
  6. sarva-saṁśrayethe shelter of everything
  7. hlādapleasure
  8. tāpa-karīcausing displeasure
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts

    Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “together”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the Lord’s freedom from material influence distinguish His pleasure from material pleasure?

Practice

Write down the three potencies named here, and beside them write: “Present in full in the Supreme Lord.”

Live this todayThe Lord’s Spiritual Potencies Are Always FullThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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