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  "name":"Cc. Madhya 7.99",
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  "label":"Text 99",
  "title":"Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 7.99",
  "description":"After some time the Lord would embrace these people and bid them to return home, having investing them with spiritual potency."

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Cc. Madhya 7.99

Text

kata-kṣaṇe rahi' prabhu tāre āliṅgiyā
vidāya karila tāre śakti sañcāriyā

Synonyms

kata-kṣaṇe rahi'—after remaining for some time; prabhu—Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu; tāre—them; āliṅgiyā—embracing; vidāya karila—bade farewell; tāre—in them; śakti—spiritual potency; sañcāriyā—investing.

Translation

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

Purport

In his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains that this spiritual potency is the essence of the pleasure potency and the knowledge potency. By these two potencies, one is empowered with devotional service. Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself or His representative, the unalloyed devotee, can mercifully bestow these combined potencies upon any man. Being thus endowed with such potencies, one can become an unalloyed devotee of the Lord. Anyone favored by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was empowered with this bhakti-śakti. Thus the Lord's followers were able to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness by divine grace.