BG Chap 9 - Fools deride Kṛṣṇa
Why do people not worship Kṛṣṇa, who has great powers? Fools deride Kṛṣṇa in His eternal human form, not knowing that it is His original spiritual form, pure Brahman and higher than anything else. Fools do not know the transcendental nature of Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Lord of everything. They treat Kṛṣṇa with contempt, thinking that He is an ordinary man with great puṇya like other princes. Others consider the Supreme to be impersonal and devoid of attributes. They think that since absolute oneness cannot be understood, it assumes a form thru contact with the material mode of goodness. They act in this way because of associating with people in ignorance and because of lack of association with devotees. Some say in deprecation that Kṛṣṇa’s human form is just an aṁśa of the Mahā-puruṣa lying on the Kāraṇa ocean. They think the form that appeared as the son of Vasudeva is His real form because of having four arms, and the form that went to Vraja was a human form since it has two hands. And since it says tanum āśritam (taking shelter of a body), they think that the human form is not eternal. There are many so-called scholars and commentators of Bhagavad-Gītā who deride Kṛṣṇa as an ordinary man. The scholar may be born an extraordinary man due to his previous good work, but this conception of Śrī Kṛṣṇa is due to a poor fund of knowledge. Therefore he is called mūḍha, for only foolish persons consider Kṛṣṇa to be an ordinary human being. And some consider Kṛṣṇa to be an ordinary person because it is said that the Supreme resides in every living being.
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