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Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Chapter 3: The Glories of Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 255

e-vanyāya ye nā bhāse, sei jīva chāra
koṭi-kalpe kabhu tāra nāhika nistāra

SYNONYMS

e-vanyāya—in this inundation; ye—anyone who; nā bhāse—does not float; sei—that; jīva—living entity; chāra—most condemned; koṭi-kalpe—in millions of kalpas; kabhu—at any time; tāra—his; nāhika—there is not; nistāra—deliverance.

TRANSLATION

“Anyone who does not float in this inundation is most condemned. Such a person cannot be delivered for millions of kalpas.

PURPORT

The kalpa is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā (BG 8.17): sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ. One day of Brahmā is called a kalpa. A yuga, or mahā-yuga, consists of 4,320,000 years, and one thousand such mahā-yugas constitute one kalpa. The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta says that if one does not take advantage of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he cannot be delivered for millions of such kalpas.