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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
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  sandhinī , it is perceivable as the existence of all that be. When predominated by  samvit , it is perceived as knowledge in transcendence. And when predominated by  hlādinī , 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.
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 inconceivable variegatedness, the manifestation of the marginal energy is the living entity, 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.
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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হ্লাদিনী সন্ধিনী সন্বিত্তয়োকা সর্বসংস্থিতৌ ।
হ্লাদতাপকরী মিশ্রা স্বয়ি নো গুণবজ্জিতে ॥ ৬৩ ॥
hlādinī sandhinī samvit   tvayy ekā sarva-saṁsthitau   hlāda-tāpakarī miśrā   tvayi no guṇa-varjite
SYNONYMS
hlādinī —pleasure potency;  sandhinī —existence potency;  samvit —knowledge potency;  tvayi —in You;  ekā —one;  sarva-saṁsthitau —who are the basis of all things;