188 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 18
nothing but a fragmental portion of the Supreme. In other words, he is nothing
more than an ordinary living being. He is never Narayana, just as a molecular por-
tion of sunshine is never the sun itself. The living entity is nothing but a fragmental
part of the Absolute Truth; therefore at no stage of perfection can a living entity
become the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This Mayavada viewpoint is always
condemned by the Vaisnava school. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself protested
this philosophy. When the Mayavadis accept sannydsa and consider themselves
Narayana, they become so puffed up that they do not even enter the temple of
Narayana to offer respects, for they falsely think themselves Narayana Himself. Al-
though Mayavadi sannydsis may offer respects to other sannydsis and address
them as Narayana, they do not go to a Narayana temple and offer respects. These
Mayavadi sannydsis are always condemned and are described as demons. The
Vedas clearly state that living entities are subordinate parts and parcels of the
supreme. Eko bahtinam yo vidadhati kamdan: the Supreme Being, Krsna, maintains
all living entities.
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Qiawi-AIeel Glas AcHfs ass oe t
hladinya sarnvid-daslistah
saC-Cid-ananda isvarah
svavidya-samvrto jivah
sanklesa-nikarakarah
SYNONYMS

hladinya—by the hladini potency; samvit—by the samvit potency; aslistah—
surrounded; sat-cit-4nandah—always transcendentally blissful; isvarah—the
supreme controller; sva—own; avidya—by ignorance; samvrtah—surrounded;
jivah—the living entity; sarklesa—of the threefold miseries; nikara—of the
multitude; akarah—the mine.

TRANSLATION

““‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, is always
full of transcendental bliss and is accompanied by the potencies known as
hladini and samvit. The conditioned soul, however, is always covered by ig-
norance and embarrassed by the threefold miseries of life. Thus he is a
treasure-house of all kinds of tribulations.’

PURPORT

This quotation of Visnusvami is cited in Sridhara Svami's Bhavartha-dipika com-

mentary on Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.7.6).
