CC Madhya 24.135

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Madhya-līlā - Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Atmārāma Verse

Madhya-līlā 24.134 - Madhya-līlā 24.136

Compare Versions: CC 1975 with CC 1996

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 135

nirodho 'syānuśayanam

ātmanaḥ saha śaktibhiḥ

muktir hitvānyathā-rūpaṁ

svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ

SYNONYMS

nirodhaḥ — winding up; asya — of this; anu — after; śayanam — lying down; ātmanaḥ — of the Supreme Lord; saha — with; śaktibhiḥ — the energies (marginal and external); muktiḥ — liberation; hitvā — giving up; anyathā — other; rūpam — form; svarūpeṇa — with one's own eternal form; vyavasthitiḥ — staying.

TRANSLATION

"'The living entities and other potencies merge into Mahā-Viṣṇu as the Lord lies down and winds up [destroys] the cosmic manifestation. Liberation means being situated in one’s eternal, original form after giving up the changeable gross and subtle bodies.'

PURPORT

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 2.10.6).