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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.95
অতএব ‘ত্রিযুগ’ করি’ কহি বিষ্ণুনাম ।
কলিযুগে অবতার নাহি, — শাস্ত্রজ্ঞান ॥ ৯৫ ॥
ataeva ‘tri-yuga’ kari’ kahi viṣṇu-nāma
kali-yuge avatāra nāhī, — śāstra-jñāna
“Another name for Lord Viṣṇu is Triyuga because there is no incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu in Kali-yuga. Indeed, this is the verdict of the revealed scriptures.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is known as Triyuga, meaning that He is manifest in three yugas.
The speaker took this name to mean that Lord Viṣṇu has no incarnation in Kali-yuga.
The purport explains that in the Age of Kali the Lord appears not directly but in disguise. It states that Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam confirms this.
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 6.95 quotesSB 7.9.38
This is confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (7.9.38):
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
The mood of Madhya 6 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 proved by śāstric quotation, quotations from the revealed scriptures, that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was Kṛṣṇa Himself in person. Still, Sārvabhauma did not take these statements very seriously.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
Learn the words of the verse.
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How does the purport change my understanding of the name Triyuga?
Write down the purport’s distinction: in the Age of Kali, the Lord appears in disguise, not directly.
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