Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya 5.127

"hlādinyā samvidāśliṣṭaḥ

sac-cid-ānanda-īśvaraḥ

svāvidyā saḿvṛto jīvaḥ

sańkleśa-nikarākaraḥ"

SYNONYMS

hlādinyā — by the hlādinī potency; samvidā — by the samvit potency; āśliṣṭaḥ — surrounded; sat-cit-ānandaḥ — always transcendentally blissful; īśvaraḥ — the supreme controller; sva — own; avidyā — by ignorance; saḿvṛtaḥ — surrounded; jīvaḥ — the living entity; sańkleśa — of the threefold miseries; nikara — of the multitude; ākaraḥ — the mine.

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.'"

PURPORT

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

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