kata-ká¹£aṇe rahi' prabhu tÄre Äliá¹…giyÄ
vidÄya karila tÄre Å›akti sañcÄriyÄ
kata-ká¹£aṇe rahi' - after remaining for some time; prabhu - Lord ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu; tÄre - each of them; Äliá¹…giyÄ - embracing; vidÄya karila - bade farewell; tÄre - in each of them; Å›akti - spiritual potency; sañcÄriyÄ - investing.
After some time the Lord would embrace these people and bid them return home, having invested each of them with spiritual potency.
In his Amá¹›ta-pravÄha-bhÄá¹£ya, ÅšrÄ«la Bhaktivinoda ṬhÄkura 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 ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu was empowered with this bhakti-Å›akti. Thus the Lord’s followers were able to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness by divine grace.
