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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 "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 Bhagavad-gita.

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.