Text 100] The Lord’s Tour of South India 49

TRANSLATION

Whoever heard Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu chant, “Hari, Hari,’ also
chanted the holy name of Lord Hari and Krsna. In this way, they all followed
the Lord, very eager to see Him.

TEXT 99

soc afe’ eis Sica iferfeal |
famia afam Sica fe Aeifan vas i

kata-ksane rahi’ prabhu tare dlingiya
vidaya karila tare Sakti saficariya

SYNONYMS

kata-ksane rahi’—after remaining for some time; prabhu—Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu; tare—them; dlingiya—embracing; vidaya karila—bade farewell;
tare—in them; sakti—spiritual potency; saficdriya—investing.

TRANSLATION

After some time, the Lord would embrace these people and bid them to
return home, after investing them with spiritual potency.

PURPORT

In his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains that this
spiritual potency is the essence of the pleasure potency and the eternity potency.
By these two potencies, one is empowered with devotional service. Lord Krsna
Himself, or His representative, the unalloyed devotee, can mercifully bestow
these combined potencies upon any man. Being thus endowed with such poten-
cies, one can become an unalloyed devotee of the Lord. Anyone favored by Lord
§ri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was empowered with this bhakti-Sakti. Thus the Lord’s
followers were able to preach Krsna consciousness by divine grace.

TEXT 100

Crea faer-attca ahaa ata |
‘See’ ale’ SCA, SICH, ATH GLH |) Soo |

sei-jana nija-grame kariyé gamana
‘krsna’ bali’ hase, kande, nace anuksana
