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The Confidential Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance

Cc Ādi 4.60
Text
hlādinī karāya kṛṣṇe ānandāsvādana
hlādinīra dvārā kare bhaktera poṣaṇa
Synonyms

hlādinī-the hlādinī energy; karāya-causes to do; kṛṣṇe-in Lord Kṛṣṇa; ānanda-āsvādana-the tasting of bliss; hlādinīra dvārā-by the pleasure potency; kare-does; bhaktera-of the devotee; poṣaṇa-nourishing.

Translation

That hlādinī energy gives Kṛṣṇa pleasure and nourishes His devotees.

Purport

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has three kinds of internal potency, namely, the hlādinī-śakti, or pleasure potency, the sandhinī-śakti, or existential potency, and the samvit-śakti, or cognitive potency. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (1.12.69) the Lord is addressed as follows: "O Lord, You are the support of everything. The three attributes hlādinī, sandhinī and samvit exist in You as one spiritual energy. But the material modes, which cause happiness, misery and mixtures of the two, do not exist in You, for You have no material qualities."