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#dl##dd#ānandāṁśe hlādinī, sad-aṁśe sandhinī#/dd#
#dd#cid-aṁśe samvit--yāre jñāna kari' māni#/dd##/dl#
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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.
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Hlādinī is His aspect of bliss; sandhinī, of eternal existence; and samvit, of cognizance, which is also accepted as knowledge.
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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.
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The total exhibition of these potencies is called viśuddha-sattva, and this platform of spiritual variegatedness is displayed even in the material world, when the Lord appears here. The pastimes and manifestations of the Lord in the material world are therefore not at all material: they belong to the pure transcendental state. The Bhagavad-gītā confirms that anyone who understands the transcendental nature of the Lord's appearance, activities and disappearance becomes eligible for freedom from material bondage upon quitting the present material tabernacle. He can enter the spiritual kingdom to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and reciprocate the hlādinī potency in transactions between him and the Lord. In the mundane mode of goodness there are tinges of passion and ignorance. Therefore mundane goodness, being mixed, is called miśra-sattva. But the transcendental variegatedness of viśuddha-sattva is completely free from all mundane qualities. Viśuddha-sattva is therefore the proper atmosphere in which to experience the Personality of Godhead and His transcendental pastimes. Spiritual variegatedness is eternally independent of all material conditions and is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, both being absolute. The Lord and His devotees simultaneously perceive the hlādinī potency directly by the power of the samvit potency.
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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 (SB 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:
#dl##dd#sattvādayo na santīśe#/dd#
#dd#yatra na prākṛtā gunāḥ#/dd#
#dd#sa śuddhaḥ sarva-śuddhebhyaḥ#/dd#
#dd#pumān ādyaḥ prasīdatu#/dd##/dl#
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is beyond the three qualities goodness, passion and ignorance. No material qualities exist in Him. May that original person, Nārāyaṇa, who is situated in a completely transcendental position, be pleased with us." In the Tenth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 10.27.4), Indra praised Kṛṣṇa as follows:
#dl##dd#viśuddha-sattvaṁ tava dhāma śāntaṁ#/dd#
#dd#tapo-mayaṁ dhvasta-rajas-tamaskam#/dd#
#dd#māyā-mayo 'yaṁ guṇa-sampravāho#/dd#
#dd#na vidyate te 'grahaṇānubandhaḥ#/dd##/dl#
"My dear Lord, Your abode is viśuddha-sattva, always undisturbed by the material qualities, and the activities there are in transcendental loving service unto Your feet. The goodness, austerity and penance of the devotees enhance such activities, which are always free from the contamination of passion and ignorance. Material qualities cannot touch You under any circumstances."
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When not manifested, the modes of material nature are said to be in goodness. When they are externally manifested and active in producing the varieties of material existence, they are said to be in passion. And when there is a lack of activity and variegatedness, they are said to be in ignorance. In other words, the pensive mood is goodness, activity is passion, and inactivity is ignorance. Above all these mundane qualitative manifestations is viśuddha-sattva. When it is predominated by the sandhinī potency, it is perceivable as the existence of all that be. When predominated by the samvit potency, it is perceived as knowledge in transcendence. And when predominated by the hlādinī potency, it is perceived as the most confidential love of Godhead. Viśuddha-sattva, the simultaneous manifestation of these three in one, is the main feature of the kingdom of God.
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The Absolute Truth is therefore the substance of reality, eternally manifest in three energies. The manifestation of the internal energy of the Lord is the inconceivably variegated spiritual world, the manifestation of the marginal energy comprises the living entities, and the manifestation of the external energy is the material cosmos. Therefore the Absolute Truth includes these four principles-the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, His internal energy, His marginal energy and His external energy. The form of the Lord and the expansions of His form as svayaṁ-rūpa and vaibhava-prakāśa are directly the enjoyers of the internal energy, which is the eternal exhibitor of the spiritual world, the most confidential of the manifestations of energy. The external manifestation, the material energy, provides the covering bodies of the conditioned living entities, from Brahmā down to the insignificant ant. This covering energy is manifested under the three modes of material nature and appreciated in various ways by living entities in both the higher and lower forms of life.
#$p#Each of the three divisions of the internal potency-the sandhinī, samvit and hlādinī energies-influences one of the external potencies by which the conditioned souls are conducted. Such influence manifests the three qualitative modes of material nature, proving definitely that the living entities, the marginal potency, are eternally servitors of the Lord and are therefore controlled by either the internal or the external potency.
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#dl##dd#ānandāṁśe hlādinī, sad-aṁśe sandhinī#/dd#
#dd#cid-aṁśe samvit—yāre jñāna kari’ māni#/dd##/dl#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ānanda&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ānanda-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=aṁśe&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#aṁśe#/i# — in the bliss portion; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=hlādinī&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#hlādinī#/i# — the pleasure energy; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sat-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=aṁśe&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#aṁśe#/i# — in the eternal portion; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sandhinī&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sandhinī#/i# — the existence-expanding energy; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=cit&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#cit-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=aṁśe&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#aṁśe#/i# — in the cognizant portion; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=samvit&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#samvit#/i# — the full energy of knowledge; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yāre&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yāre#/i# — which; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=jñāna&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#jñāna #a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kari’&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kari’#/i# — as knowledge; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=māni&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#māni#/i# — I accept.
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Hlādinī is His aspect of bliss; sandhinī, of eternal existence; and samvit, of cognizance, which is also accepted as knowledge.
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In his thesis #i#Bhagavat-sandarbha#/i# (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 #i#sandhinī#/i#. The transcendental potency by which He knows Himself and causes others to know Him is called #i#samvit#/i#. The transcendental potency by which He possesses transcendental bliss and causes His devotees to have bliss is called #i#hlādinī#/i#.
#$p#The total exhibition of these potencies is called #i#viśuddha-sattva#/i#, and this platform of spiritual variegatedness is displayed even in the material world when the Lord appears here. The pastimes and manifestations of the Lord in the material world are therefore not at all material; they belong to the pure transcendental state. The #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# confirms that anyone who understands the transcendental nature of the Lord’s appearance, activities and disappearance becomes eligible for freedom from material bondage upon quitting the present material tabernacle. He can enter the spiritual kingdom to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and reciprocate the #i#hlādinī#/i# potency in transactions between him and the Lord. In the mundane mode of goodness there are tinges of passion and ignorance. Therefore mundane goodness, being mixed, is called #i#miśra-sattva#/i#. But the transcendental variegatedness of #i#viśuddha-sattva#/i# is completely free from all mundane qualities. #i#Viśuddha-sattva#/i# is therefore the proper atmosphere in which to experience the Personality of Godhead and His transcendental pastimes. Spiritual variegatedness is eternally independent of all material conditions and is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, both being absolute. The Lord and His devotees simultaneously perceive the #i#hlādinī#/i# potency directly by the power of the #i#samvit#/i# potency.
#$p#The material modes of nature control the conditioned souls, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is never influenced by these modes, as all Vedic literatures directly and indirectly corroborate. Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself says in the Eleventh Canto of #i#Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam#/i# (SB 11.25.12), #i#sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇā jīvasya naiva me#/i#: “The material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance are connected with the conditioned souls, but never with Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” The #i#Viṣṇu Purāṇa#/i# confirms this as follows:
#dl##dd##i#sattvādayo na santīśe yatra na prākṛtā gunāḥ#/i##/dd#
#dd##i#sa śuddhaḥ sarva-śuddhebhyaḥ pumān ādyaḥ prasīdatu#/i##/dd##/dl#
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is beyond the three qualities goodness, passion and ignorance. No material qualities exist in Him. May that original person, Nārāyaṇa, who is situated in a completely transcendental position, be pleased with us.” In the Tenth Canto of #i#Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam#/i# (SB 10.27.4), Indra praises Kṛṣṇa as follows:
#dl##dd##i#viśuddha-sattvaṁ tava dhāma śāntaṁ#/i##/dd#
#dd##i#tapo-mayaṁ dhvasta-rajas-tamaskam#/i##/dd#
#dd##i#māyā-mayo ‘yaṁ guṇa-sampravāho#/i##/dd#
#dd##i#na vidyate te ’grahaṇānubandhaḥ#/i##/dd##/dl#
“My dear Lord, Your abode is #i#viśuddha-sattva#/i#, always undisturbed by the material qualities, and the activities there are in transcendental loving service unto Your feet. The goodness, austerity and penance of the devotees enhance such activities, which are always free from the contamination of passion and ignorance. Material qualities cannot touch You under any circumstances.”
When not manifested, the modes of material nature are said to be in goodness. When they are externally manifested and active in producing the varieties of material existence, they are said to be in passion. And when there is a lack of activity and variegatedness, they are said to be in ignorance. In other words, the pensive mood is goodness, activity is passion, and inactivity is ignorance. Above all these mundane qualitative manifestations is #i#viśuddha-sattva#/i#. When it is predominated by the #i#sandhinī#/i# potency, it is perceivable as the existence of all that be. When predominated by the #i#samvit#/i# potency, it is perceived as knowledge in transcendence. And when predominated by the #i#hlādinī#/i# potency, it is perceived as the most confidential love of Godhead. #i#Viśuddha-sattva#/i#, the simultaneous manifestation of these three in one, is the main feature of the kingdom of God.
#$p#The Absolute Truth is therefore the substance of reality, eternally manifest in three energies. The manifestation of the internal energy of the Lord is the inconceivably variegated spiritual world, the manifestation of the marginal energy comprises the living entities, and the manifestation of the external energy is the material cosmos. Therefore the Absolute Truth includes these four principles—the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, His internal energy, His marginal energy and His external energy. The form of the Lord and the expansions of His form as #i#svayaṁ-rūpa#/i# and #i#vaibhava-prakāśa#/i# are directly the enjoyers of the internal energy, which is the eternal exhibitor of the spiritual world, the most confidential of the manifestations of energy. The external manifestation, the material energy, provides the covering bodies of the conditioned living entities, from Brahmā down to the insignificant ant. This covering energy is manifested under the three modes of material nature and appreciated in various ways by living entities in both the higher and lower forms of life.
#$p#Each of the three divisions of the internal potency—the #i#sandhinī#/i#, #i#samvit#/i# and #i#hlādinī#/i# energies—influences one of the external potencies by which the conditioned souls are conducted. Such influence manifests the three qualitative modes of material nature, proving definitely that the living entities, the marginal potency, are eternally servitors of the Lord and are therefore controlled by either the internal or the external potency.
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