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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 3.255
এ-বন্যায় যে না ভাসে, সেই জীব ছার ।
কোটিকল্পে কভু তার নাহিক নিস্তার ॥ ২৫৫ ॥
e-vanyāya ye nā bhāse, sei jīva chāra
koṭi-kalpe kabhu tāra nāhika nistāra
“Anyone who does not float in this inundation is most condemned. Such a person cannot be delivered for millions of kalpas.
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The verse strongly warns against refusing to float in the flood of love of Godhead.
One day of Brahmā is called a kalpa. It consists of one thousand mahā-yugas, each lasting 4,320,000 years.
The purport says that one who does not take advantage of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement cannot be delivered for millions of such kalpas.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Antya 3.255 quotesBG 8.17
The kalpa is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.17): sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ.
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Steadfast compassion. Haridāsa’s spiritual conviction and the reach of the holy name confront prejudice and temptation.
The mood of Antya 3 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
A person named Rāmacandra Khān, who was envious of Haridāsa Ṭhākura, sent a professional prostitute to attempt to defame him, but by the mercy of Haridāsa Ṭhākura, even the prostitute was delivered. Because of offending a pure Vaiṣṇava, Rāmacandra Khān was later cursed by Nityānanda Prabhu and ruined.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 3
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “delivered”
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this warning help you value the opportunity to take up Kṛṣṇa consciousness now?
Set aside a few minutes today for Kṛṣṇa consciousness rather than postponing it.
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