BHAGAVAD-GITA 9:12

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 9:12

 

moghasa mogha-karmano

mogha-jnana vicetasah

raksasim asurim caiva

prakrtim mohinim sritah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

mogha-asah--baffled in their hopes; mogha-karmanah--baffled in

fruitive activities; mogha-jnanah--baffled in knowledge;

vicetasah--bewildered; raksasim--demonic; asurim--atheistic; ca--and;

eva--certainly; prakrtim--nature; mohinim--bewildering; sritah--taking

shelter of.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic

views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their

fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.

 

PURPORT

 

There are many devotees who assume themselves to be in Krsna

consciousness and devotional service but at heart do not accept the

Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, as the Absolute Truth. For

them, the fruit of devotional service--going back to Godhead--will

never be tasted. Similarly, those who are engaged in fruitive pious

activities and who are ultimately hoping to be liberated from this

material entanglement will never be successful either, because they

deride the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. In other words,

persons who mock Krsna are to be understood to be demonic or

atheistic. As described in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, such

demonic miscreants never surrender to Krsna. Therefore their mental

speculations to arrive at the Absolute Truth bring them to the false

conclusion that the ordinary living entity and Krsna are one and the

same. With such a false conviction, they think that the body of any

human being is now simply covered by material nature and that as soon

as one is liberated from this material body there is no difference

between God and himself. This attempt to become one with Krsna will be

baffled because of delusion. Such atheistic and demoniac cultivation

of spiritual knowledge is always futile. That is the indication of

this verse. For such persons, cultivation of the knowledge in the

Vedic literature, like the Vedanta-sutra and the Upanisads. is always

baffled.

 

It is a great offense, therefore, to consider Krsna, the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, to be an ordinary man. Those who do so are

certainly deluded because they cannot understand the eternal form of

Krsna. The Brhad-visnu-smrti clearly states:

 

yo vetti bhautikam deham

krsnasya paramatmanah

sa sarvasmad bahis-karyah

srauta-smarta-vidhanatah

mukham tasyavalokyapi

sa-celam snanam acaret

 

"One who considers the body of Krsna to be material should be driven out

from all rituals and activities of the sruti and the smrti. And if one

by chance sees his face, one should at once take bath in the Ganges to

rid himself of infection. People jeer at Krsna because they are

envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their destiny is

certainly to take birth after birth in the species of atheistic and

demoniac life. Perpetually, their real knowledge will remain under

delusion, and gradually they will regress to the darkest region of

creation."

 

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