| Sri Harinama Cintamani :: Chapter 1 (part 1) |
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limited display of spiritual potencies includes His abode, generally known as the Vaikuntha-loka; His innumerable names like Govinda, Hari, etc.; His transcendental forms, like the three-fold bending form with two hands playing on a flute; His divine qualities, so sublimely pleasurable to His devotees; His super-excellent pastimes like the rasa dance in Vrndavana and its non-different appearance in Navadvipa as the congregational chanting of the holy names. Thus His spiritual potencies are countless. "The Lord's cit potency is His superior energy. It is the natural result of the Lord's spiritual fullness. "The sandhini potency by which everything exists and is held together as an inter-related whole, including the relationships of all jivas to the Lord, is an emanation of the cit potency. From that same cit-vaibhava also comes the samvit potency, which gives knowledge of one's identity and of everything else; finally, from the cit-vaibhava comes the hladini potency, which gives birth to the ecstatic bliss of spiritual emotions, spiritual relationship and the divine exchange of rasas or mellows. The Lord's cit potency is His yoga-maya, and its transformations are all beyond the jurisdiction of the mundane modes and influences. Controlling the mind The cit potency is never affected by the inferior acit potency. Although it descends to this inferior mundane world it, is unaffected by material inebrieties. Forever spiritual, embodying the absolute nature of the Supreme Lord, the Vedic hymns sing of its supreme position as equal to the Lord Himself. Krsna's energies are in the visnu-tattva category "There is no tinge of material influence in Lord Krsna's energy; it is transcendental and exists in pure goodness (suddhasattva). Sattva is of two kinds: suddha-sattva (pure-goodness) and misra-sattva (mixed goodness). Everything in the category of cit-vaibhava is suddha-sattva, or pure goodness. All saliva in the material nature is mixed, or misra-saitva. Suddha-sattva is devoid of passion and ignorance. Birth indicates the mode of passion in action. The eternally existent spiritual essence, suddha-sattva, has never been touched by birth, which is a manifestation of |