Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 18.114

hlādinyā saḿvid-āśliṣṭaḥ

sac-cid-ānanda īśvaraḥ

svāvidyā-saḿvṛto jīvaḥ

sańkleśa-nikarākaraḥ

SYNONYMS

hlādinyā — by the hlādinī potency; saḿvit — by the saḿvit 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 saḿvit. 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 quotation of Viṣṇu Svāmī is cited in Śrīdhara Svāmī's Bhāvārtha-dīpikā commentary on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.7.6).

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