Gorācandera Ajña Peye Gṛha Bāsi Gaṇa

On Lord Caitanya's order, the people of the house at once brought the dead son into the courtyard.

Then Lord Caitanya, the purifier of the Kali-yuga, asked, "Child, why did you leave Śrīvāsa and go away?"

Speaking through the dead boy;s mouth, the spirit soul said, "Lord, You act to teach the world.

["You are the limitless, non-dual Supreme Truth. Your spiritual potency is not different from You.

"Your spiritual potency manifests in three ways. By Your wish it helps with Your pastimes.

"Your spiritual potency manifests Your eternal pastimes. Becoming Your hlādinī śakti (pleasure potency), Your spiritual potency gives You bliss.

"Becoming the jīva-śakti (potency of individual souls), Your spiritual potency manifests the multitude of individual souls, who are tiny particles of spiritual effulgence on the border (taṭastha) of matter and spirit.

"Becoming the māyā-śakti (material potency), Your spiritual potency creates the material world, where she imprisons the rebellious souls who have turned their faces away from You."

Bhaktivinoda says: Because of my offenses, I turned my face away from Lord Kṛṣṇa. That is why I was devoured by the material potency.