When Krishna
was present five thousand years ago, He appeared in His original form of eternity,
bliss, and knowledge. But the nondevotees could not understand that He is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, because He appeared to be a human being.
Avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam. Mudha means less intelligent
persons. They may be very great scholars, but in the matter of understanding
God, they’re mudhas. Why? Mayaya apahrta-jnana asuram bhavam asritah—because
they defy God. At present, people are mostly asuram bhavam asritah. Asuri bhava
means to defy God: “There is no God. God is dead. I am God. You are God. So
many Gods are loitering in the street. Why are you searching for God?”
There are so
many such statements. God has become so cheap. There are so many “incarnations”
of God, especially in India. It is a breeding ground of “Gods.” That means
people do not know what God is. They think God is such a cheap thing. But from
the Bhagavad-gita we understand what God is. When Arjuna asked Krishna, “How
are You controlling the whole cosmos?” Krishna explained, and then He
concluded:
athava bahunaitena
kim jnatena tavarjuna
vistabhyaham idam krtsnam ekamsena sthito jagatem
“The whole
material world is sustained by a partial manifestation of My energies.”
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