Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 5.113
The Lord Appears to Establish Real Religion
“In the ages and millenniums of Manu, He appears as different incarnations to establish the principles of real religion and vanquish the principles of irreligion.”
What the purport teaches
- Lord Viṣṇu, who lies in the ocean of milk, incarnates in various forms to maintain the laws of the cosmos and annihilate the causes of disturbance.
- His incarnations establish the principles of real religion and vanquish the principles of irreligion.
- Such incarnations appear during the reign of each Manu, who lives for 71 × 4,320,000 years. Fourteen Manus take birth and die in succession during one day of Brahmā.
Try this today
Write down the two purposes of the Lord’s incarnations stated in the translation.
Ask yourself
What does the Lord’s purpose in appearing teach you about His care for the cosmos?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.