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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 3.80

সেই জীব হবে ইহাঁ স্থাবর-জঙ্গম ।

তাহাতে ভরিবে ব্রহ্মাণ্ড যেন পূর্ব-সম ॥ ৮০ ॥

sei jīva habe ihāṅ sthāvara-jaṅgama

tāhāte bharibe brahmāṇḍa yena pūrva-sama

Translation

“In this way all moving and nonmoving living entities will come into existence, and the entire universe will be filled as it was previously.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Liberation Does Not Leave the Universe Empty

  1. 1

    Moving and nonmoving living entities will again come into existence, filling the universe as before.

  2. 2

    The purport compares the material world to a prison. Even when its present prisoners are freed, others will fill it again.

  3. 3

    Association with material nature brings living entities into good and evil circumstances among various species. Unmanifested beings covered by ignorance gradually come to passion, and fruitive activities lead most of them into further imprisonment.

Key points from the purport
  • While we are preaching, opposing elements sometimes argue, “If all living entities were delivered by the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, what would happen then?
  • The universe would be devoid of living entities.”
  • There are many unmanifested living entities covered by the mode of ignorance who will gradually come to the mode of passion.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Antya 3.80 quotesBG 13.22

As confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (13.22), kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo’sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu: “Because of the living entity’s association with material nature, he meets with good and evil among various species.”

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 3: The Glories of Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Thus, following the order of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Dāmodara Paṇḍita went to Navadvīpa, taking with him all kinds of prasādam from Lord Jagannātha. On another occasion, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu once inquired from Haridāsa Ṭhākura, who was known as Brahma Haridāsa, how the yavanas, or persons bereft of Vedic culture, would be delivered in Kali-yuga .
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 3
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. sei jīvasuch living entities
  2. habewill be
  3. ihāṅin this material world
  4. sthāvara-jaṅgamanonmoving and moving living entities
  5. tāhātein that way
  6. bharibeYou will fill
  7. brahmāṇḍathe entire universe
  8. yenaas
  9. pūrva-samathe same as previously
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association

    Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “association”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does the prison comparison help me understand about continued material bondage?

Practice

Write one sentence explaining why delivering living entities does not leave the universe empty.

Live this todayLiberation Does Not Leave the Universe EmptyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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