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The Confidential Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance

Cc Ādi 4.62
Text
ānandāṁśe hlādinī, sad-aṁśe sandhinī
cid-aṁśe samvit--yāre jñāna kari' māni
Synonyms

ānanda-aṁśe-in the bliss portion; hlādinī-the pleasure energy; sat-aṁśe-in the eternal portion; sandhinī-the existence-expanding energy; cit-aṁśe-in the cognizant portion; samvit-the full energy of knowledge; yāre-which; jñāna kari'-as knowledge; māni-I accept.

Translation

Hlādinī is His aspect of bliss; sandhinī, of eternal existence; and samvit, of cognizance, which is also accepted as knowledge.

Purport

In his thesis Bhagavat-sandarbha (103), Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains the potencies of the Lord as follows: The transcendental potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by which He maintains His existence is called sandhinī. The transcendental potency by which He knows Himself and causes others to know Him is called samvit. The transcendental potency by which He possesses transcendental bliss and causes His devotees to have bliss is called hlādinī.