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| Madhya-līlā | Chapter 7: The Lord Begins His Tour of South India |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Madhya 7.99
kata-kshane rahi' prabhu tāre ālińgiyā
vidāya karila tāre śakti sańcāriyā
SYNONYMS
kata-kshane rahi' — after remaining for some time; prabhu — Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; tāre — each of them; ālińgiyā — embracing; vidāya karila — bade farewell; tāre — in each of them; śakti — spiritual potency; sańcāriyā — investing.
TRANSLATION
After some time the Lord would embrace these people and bid them return home, having invested each of them with spiritual potency.
PURPORT
In his Amrita-pravāha-bhāshya, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura explains that this spiritual potency is the essence of the pleasure potency and the knowledge potency. By these two potencies, one is empowered with devotional service. Lord Krishna Himself or His representative, the unalloyed devotee, can mercifully bestow these combined potencies upon any man. Being thus endowed with such potencies, one can become an unalloyed devotee of the Lord. Anyone favored by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was empowered with this bhakti-śakti. Thus the Lord's followers were able to preach Krishna consciousness by divine grace.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness