Суд над Бхагавад-гитой / Attempt to ban Bhagavad-gita

Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 3.255

e-vanyaya ye na bhase, sei jiva chara

koti-kalpe kabhu tara nahika nistara

SYNONYMS

e-vanyaya -- in this inundation; ye -- anyone who; na bhase -- does not float; sei -- that; jiva -- living entity; chara -- most condemned; koti-kalpe -- in millions of kalpas; kabhu -- at any time; tara -- his; nahika -- there is not; nistara -- 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-gita (8.17): sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmano viduh. One day of Brahma is called a kalpa. A yuga, or maha-yuga, consists of 4,320,000 years, and one thousand such maha-yugas constitute one kalpa. The author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta says that if one does not take advantage of the Krsna consciousness movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he cannot be delivered for millions of such kalpas.