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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.305
কোন কল্পে যদি যোগ্য জীব নাহি পায় ।
আপনে ঈশ্বর তবে অংশে ‘ব্ৰহ্মা’ হয় ॥ ৩০৫ ॥
kona kalpe yadi yogya jīva nāhi pāya
āpane īśvara tabe aṁśe ‘brahmā’ haya
“If in a kalpa a suitable living entity is not available to take charge of Brahmā’s post, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself personally expands and becomes Lord Brahmā.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
If no suitable living entity is available to take Brahmā’s post in a kalpa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead personally expands and becomes Lord Brahmā.
One day of Brahmā consists of the four yugas multiplied a thousand times, or 4,320,000,000 solar years. His night lasts equally long.
Brahmā’s year consists of 360 such days and nights. He lives for one hundred such years.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
Thus the Lord described the many forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He also described the incarnations of God within the material world, incarnations such as the puruṣa-avatāras, manvantara-avatāras, guṇa-avatāras and śaktyāveśa-avatāras.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What strikes you about the Lord’s ability to fill Brahmā’s post Himself?
Write down the length of Brahmā’s day and night, and pause to consider this vast span of time.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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