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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

The material modes of nature control the conditioned souls, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is never influenced by these modes, as all Vedic literature directly and indirectly corroborates. Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself says in the Eleventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.25.12), sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇā jīvasya naiva me: "The material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance are connected with the conditioned souls, but never with Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead." The Viṣṇu Purāṇa confirms this as follows: