272 Sri Caitanya-caritamsta
TRANSLATION

Krsna’s mother, father, abode, house, bedding, seats and so on are all transforma-
tions of Suddha-sattva.

PURPORT

Lord Krsna’s father, mother and household affairs are all displayed in the same
visuddha-sattva existence. A living entity situated in the status of pure goodness can
understand the form, quality and other features of the Supreme Personality of God-
head. Krsna consciousness begins on the platform of pure goodness. Although there
is a faint realization of Krsna at first, Krsna is actually realized as Vasudeva, the
absolute proprietor of omnipotence or the prime predominating Deity of all
potencies. When the living entity is situated in visuddha-sattva, transcendental to
the three material modes of nature, he can perceive the form, quality and other
features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through his service attitude. The
status of pure goodness is the platform of understanding, for the Supreme Lord is
always in spiritual existence.

Krsna is always all-spiritual. Aside from the parents of the Personality of God-
head, all the other paraphernalia of His existence is also essentially a manifestation of
sandhini Sakti, or a transformation of visuddha-sattva. To make this more clear, it
may be said that this sandhini Sakti of the internal potency maintains and manifests
all the variegatedness of the spiritual world. In the kingdom of God, the Lord’s
servants and maidservants, His consorts, His father and mother and everything else
are all transformations of the spiritual existence of sandhini Sakti. The existential
sandhini Sakti in the external potency similarly expands all the variegatedness of the
material cosmos, from which we can have a glimpse of the spiritual field.

TEXT 66
AB Fawr acre Hos
AMS SG TATAATSS |
ACS b Hay SHAIA Awa!
AAT BCH CA TAA FAVS 1 vy I
sattvarh visuddham vasudeva-sabditarn
yad iyate tatra pumdn apavrtah
sattve ca tasmin bhagavan vdsudevo
hy adhoksajo me manasa vidhiyate
SYNONYMS

sattvam—existence; visuddham-— pure; vasudeva-Sabditam—named vasudeva; yat—
from which; fyate—appears; tatra—in that; puma@n—the Supreme Personality of God-
head; apavrtah—without any covering; sattve—in goodness; ca—and; tasmin—that;
bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vdsudevah— Vasudeva; hi—certainly;
adhoksajahi— who is beyond the senses; me—my; manasd—by the mind; vidhiyate—
is procured.
