Chapter 9 — Rajvidya Rajguha Yoga

Verse 11
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka

avajānanti māṁ müdhā mānuşīṁ tanumāśritam

paraṁ bhāvamajānanto mama bhūtamaheśvaram

🕉 English Translation

Dharan karun deh mai insaan ki jab,

Na prabhav mera murkh jaane tab.

Samajhte mujhe bhi veh apne samaan,

Agaya pe meri nahin dete dhyan.

📜 Translation English

The fools not knowing My Supreme nature of being the great Lord of existences, take Me to be an ordinary mortal and disregard Me.

💬 Commentary English

The Krishna of the Gita at this point of time while delivering this sermon is not a stealer of butter, clothes and the great dancer of the divine dance though all these are His varied divine plays. Here He exists as consciousness that is present in everyone, in which all exist, which is vast, and all-pervasive. One can see the glimpse of this in the previous verses. Here this fact is being further clarified that Shri Krishna is none else. No one should conclude that Krishna who is taking one to the pinnacle of all knowledge, to the depth of essential truths and the Krishna who is engaging in various ordinary and natural sportive plays are in actually different; this verse carries a straight and open but a strong-worded clarification: Such a great expression relating to Himself-for this reason is this chapter the royal secret that is crest jewel amongst secrets. From the events of the sportive plays of Lord Shri Krishna it is made evident on several occasions that this 'Krishna' is no ordinary cowherd boy; He is the godhead of all existences. This is the superiormost revelation of His true nature, which due to ignorance the worldly persons being immersed in attachment and egoism do not understand. While He is engaged in these sportive activities, it appears to us that He is an ordinary mortal like us. Even then Duryodhan, Shishupal, etc. while knowing really do not understand, while seeing do not want to see; knowing, still do not accept that the one on whose manifestation, the closed doors of the jail opened by themselves, the handcuffs and chains of Vasudeva also fell off, a miracle happened in the night itself; the one who slow such ferocious demons, for seven days the one who held the mountain Goverdhan of seven kosa on the smallest finger of His left hand and the one who performed several such extraordinary and unearthly sportive plays whether such Krishna can be an ordinary child or an ordinary mortal. But when ignorance has gone to the head then how can the idea of His being the Lord appeal? Which Lord and what commandment? Whatever we are doing that is in order! This is what demoniac quality is.

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