Chapter 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

Synonyms

hlādinyā—by the hlādinī potency; samvidā—by the samvit potency; āśliṣṭaḥ—surrounded; sat-cit-ānanda—always transcendentally blissful; īśvaraḥ—the Supreme Controller; sva—own; avidyā—by ignorance; saṁvṛtaḥ—surrounded; jīvaḥ—the living entity; saṅkleśa—of the three fold miseries; nikāra—of the multitude; ākara—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 hlādinī and samvit. The conditioned soul, however, is always covered by ignorance and embarassed by the threefold miseries of life. Thus he is a treasure house of all kinds of tribulations.' "

Purport