Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Madhya-līlā 20.114-115

"“ ‘O King, the kṣetra-jña-śakti is the living entity. Although he has the facility to live in either the material or the spiritual world, he suffers the threefold miseries of material existence because he is influenced by the avidyā [nescience] potency, which covers his constitutional position."

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"“ ‘This living entity, covered by the influence of nescience, exists in different forms in the material condition. O King, he is thus proportionately freed from the influence of the material energy, to greater or lesser degrees.’"

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Śrī caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya 20.114 & 115