Verse-24
Chapter 7 — Gyan Vigyan Yoga
Verse 24
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
avyaktam vyaktimāpannaṁ manyante mämabuddhayaḥ
paraṁ bhāvamajānanto mamāvyayamanuttamam
🕉 English Translation
Sarvottam anashwar param bhav ko,
Buddhi rahit purush jane na jo.
Avayakt hun mai magar mane woh,
Manushya ki bhati mere janam ho.
📜 Translation
English
The unintelligent men not knowing My supreme, immutable and peerless nature, think of Me the unmanifest and the Supreme who is truth, consciousness and bliss as an entity like a human being who dons a body.
The wisdom lies in the embodied being worshipping the Lord without any desire for reward! Leaving Him engaging in the worship and sacrifice to the gods, that too with the eye on the fruits-The Krishna of the Gita calls such people of little intelligence. But those who do not believe in the least even in the incarnation which is manifest before all-for such persons the word 'abuddhayah' (unintelligent) has been used.
On being manifest in form there is no effect on the formless nature of the Supreme. He is already formless but has now assumed form. On assuming a body he is still immutable. On engaging in several sportive activities He is still unmanifest. Even on assuming a human body, His incarnation and sportive activities are extraordinary and unearthly. Observe His incarnation in the form of Shri Krishna; each play is an expression of a divine, deep and vast act in itself! This is His unsurpassable and imperishable expression. Even today, the bliss of his name, form, sportive plays and earthly abode is the same as before. This expression is not lost as yet. All is clear and evident; still, many people like Duryodhan existed then and are there too today, who do not accept that He is the same unmanifest, eternal divine. They consider Him to be an ordinary mortal who is a cowherd boy, stealer of butter or something similar and nothing further! Why is it so! The Lord Himself clarifies: