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Pradyumna: ...yakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ... ([[Vanisource:BG 9.10|BG 9.10]])
Pradyumna: Translation: "Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be."
 
Prabhupāda: No. Next verse. This we have discussed last night.
 
Pradyumna: Oh. (leads chanting of verse) (Prabhupāda and devotees repeat)
 
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:avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā
:mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam
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...foolish men; mānuṣīm—in a human form; tanum—body; āśritam—assuming; param—transcendental; bhāvam—nature; ajānantaḥ—not knowing; mama—Mine; bhūta—everything that be; maheśvaram—supreme proprietor.
 
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Translation: "Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be."
Prabhupāda: So Kṛṣṇa is not an ordinary man. Therefore Kṛṣṇa warns this: ''avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]). ''Mūḍha'', rascals. To accept God as man and to accept man as God, this is rascaldom. Rascaldom means to accept a man as God and to accept God as man. This is rascaldom. ''Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ.''


Prabhupāda: So Kṛṣṇa is not an ordinary man. Therefore Kṛṣṇa warns this: avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11|BG 9.11]]). Mūḍha, rascals. To accept God as man and to accept man as God, this is rascaldom. Rascaldom means to accept a man as God and to accept God as man. This is rascaldom. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ.
We can understand who is an intelligent man and who is a rascal by this criterion. In another place Kṛṣṇa says, ''na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]): "''Mūḍhās'', rascals, they do not surrender unto Me." Kṛṣṇa is canvassing . . . especially in India He appeared. He is canvassing, ''sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja'' ([[vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). He is canvassing. But the ''mūḍhas'', they will not accept it. ''Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ''. "Oh. Why shall I accept Kṛṣṇa? I have got my own God. I manufacture my God." So we have got very short-cut criterion to understand a rascal and intelligent man. What is that? If he is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then he is intelligent man. If he is not, then he's rascal. That's all.


We can understand who is an intelligent man and who is a rascal by this criterion. In another place Kṛṣṇa says, na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15|BG 7.15]]): "Mūḍhās, rascals, they do not surrender unto Me." Kṛṣṇa is canvassing... Especially in India He appeared. He is canvassing, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). He is canvassing. But the mūḍhas, they will not accept it. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ. "Oh. Why shall I accept Kṛṣṇa? I have got my own God. I manufacture my God." So we have got very short-cut criterion to understand a rascal and intelligent man. What is that? If he is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then he is intelligent man. If he is not, then he's rascal. That's all.
"No, he does not accept Kṛṣṇa as God, but he has many other gods." Especially in our Hindu society they say, the Māyāvāda philosophers, they say that everyone is God. How everyone can be God? If everyone is God, then what is the significance of God? Even not demigods . . . in ''śāstra'' says, ''yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ brahma-rudrādi-daivataiḥ'' ([[vanisource:CC  Madhya 18.116|CC Madhya 18.116]]). Not to speak of ordinary demigods, but big, big demigods, just like Brahmā, Lord Śiva . . .


"No, he does not accept Kṛṣṇa as God, but he has many other gods." Especially in our Hindu society they say, the Māyāvāda philosophers, they say that everyone is God. How everyone can be God? If everyone is God, then what is the significance of God? Even not demigods... In śāstra says, yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ brahma-rudrādi-daivataiḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 18.116|CC Madhya 18.116]]). Not to speak of ordinary demigods, but big, big demigods, just like Brahmā, Lord Śiva...
Even Viṣṇu. Of course, Kṛṣṇa is ''viṣṇu-tattva''. Kṛṣṇa is not in the category of ''jīva-tattva''. There are ''jīva-tattvas,'' there are ''śakti-tattvas'', there are ''viṣṇu-tattvas.'' People do not know it. Therefore in the next line it is said, ''paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ''. They do not know what is ''viṣṇu-tattva'', what is ''jīva-tattva,'' what is ''śakti-tattva'', how things are working. ''Paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]). ''Mama bhūta-maheśvaram'': "I am the Supreme Person."
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So we have got very short-cut criterion to understand a rascal and intelligent man. What is that? If he is a devotee of Krsna, then he is intelligent man. If he is not, then he's rascal. That's all.


Pradyumna: Translation: "Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be."

Prabhupāda: So Kṛṣṇa is not an ordinary man. Therefore Kṛṣṇa warns this: avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ (BG 9.11). Mūḍha, rascals. To accept God as man and to accept man as God, this is rascaldom. Rascaldom means to accept a man as God and to accept God as man. This is rascaldom. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ.

We can understand who is an intelligent man and who is a rascal by this criterion. In another place Kṛṣṇa says, na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ (BG 7.15): "Mūḍhās, rascals, they do not surrender unto Me." Kṛṣṇa is canvassing . . . especially in India He appeared. He is canvassing, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66). He is canvassing. But the mūḍhas, they will not accept it. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ. "Oh. Why shall I accept Kṛṣṇa? I have got my own God. I manufacture my God." So we have got very short-cut criterion to understand a rascal and intelligent man. What is that? If he is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then he is intelligent man. If he is not, then he's rascal. That's all.

"No, he does not accept Kṛṣṇa as God, but he has many other gods." Especially in our Hindu society they say, the Māyāvāda philosophers, they say that everyone is God. How everyone can be God? If everyone is God, then what is the significance of God? Even not demigods . . . in śāstra says, yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ brahma-rudrādi-daivataiḥ (CC Madhya 18.116). Not to speak of ordinary demigods, but big, big demigods, just like Brahmā, Lord Śiva . . .

Even Viṣṇu. Of course, Kṛṣṇa is viṣṇu-tattva. Kṛṣṇa is not in the category of jīva-tattva. There are jīva-tattvas, there are śakti-tattvas, there are viṣṇu-tattvas. People do not know it. Therefore in the next line it is said, paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ. They do not know what is viṣṇu-tattva, what is jīva-tattva, what is śakti-tattva, how things are working. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ (BG 9.11). Mama bhūta-maheśvaram: "I am the Supreme Person."