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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 24.76
অহমেবাসমেবাগ্রে নান্যদ্যৎ সদসত্পরম্ ।
পশ্চাদহং যদেতচ্চ যোঽবশিষ্যেত সোঽস্ম্যহম্ ॥ ৭৬ ॥
aham evāsam evāgre
nānyad yat sad-asat-param
paścād ahaṁ yad etac ca
yo ’vaśiṣyeta so ’smy aham
“ ‘Prior to the cosmic creation, only I exist, and no phenomena exist, either gross, subtle or primordial. After creation, only I exist in everything, and after annihilation only I remain eternally.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Kṛṣṇa says that before cosmic creation, only He exists. No gross, subtle or primordial phenomena exist then.
After creation, He alone exists in everything.
After annihilation, He alone remains eternally. The purport identifies these words as spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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 Madhya 24.76 quotesSB 2.9.33
This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.9.33) was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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:
He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways. He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What stands out to you about Kṛṣṇa’s existence through creation and annihilation?
Write ‘before creation,’ ‘after creation’ and ‘after annihilation,’ and note what Kṛṣṇa says about Himself at each stage.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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