Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 3.23

paritrāṇāya sādhūnāḿ

vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām

dharma-saḿsthāpanārthāya

sambhavāmi yuge yuge

SYNONYMS

paritrāṇāya — for the deliverance; sādhūnām — of the devotees; vināśāya — for the destruction; ca — and; duṣkṛtām — of the miscreants; dharma — religious principles; saḿsthāpana-arthāya — for the purpose of establishing; sambhavāmi — I appear; yuge yuge — in every age.

TRANSLATION

"'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 Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.7-8). Texts 24 and 25, which follow, are also from the Bhagavad-gītā (3.24, 3.21).

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