3.23
paritranaya sadhunam
vinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma-samsthapanarthaya
sambhavami yuge yuge
SYNONYMS
paritranaya—for the deliverance; sadhunam—of the devotees; vinasaya—for the destruction; ca—and; duskrtam—of the miscreants; dharma—religious principles; samsthapana-arthaya—for the purpose of establishing; sambhavami—I appear; yuge yuge—in every age " ’To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.’
PURPORT
Texts 22 and 23 were spoken by Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita (4.7-8).
Texts 24 and 25, which follow, are also from the Bhagavad-gita (3.24, 21).