270 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

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 viSuddha-sattva. When it is predomi-
nated by sandhini, 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 Alddini, it is perceived as the most confidential love of Godhead. Visuddha-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 incon-
ceivable 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 svayarn-riipa and vaibhava-prakasa
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 Brahma 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 sandhini, samvit and
hladini 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.

TEXT 63
watfinay mfeA aPracATal AAA FETw) |
SURSIAEN FAN WH Cat aIAafETs I ve |
hladini sandhini samvit
tvayy ekd sarva-samsthitau
hlada-tapakari misra
tvayi no guna-varjite
SYNONYMS

hiadini—pleasure potency; sandhini—existence potency; samvit—knowledge

potency; tvayi—in You; ekd—one; sarva-sarnsthitau—who are the basis of all things;
