Word meanings
- avyaktam
- formless
- vyaktim
- possessing a personality
- āpannam
- to have assumed
- manyante
- think
- mām
- me
- abuddhayaḥ
- less intelligent
- param
- Supreme
- bhāvam
- nature
- ajānantaḥ
- not understanding
- mama
- my
- avyayam
- imperishable
- anuttamam
- excellent
Translations
The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, not knowing My higher, immutable, and most excellent nature.
The ignorant think of Me, who am the Unmanifested Spirit, as if I were in human form. They do not understand that My Superior Nature is unchanging and most excellent.
The unintelligent, unaware of My supreme state which is immutable and unsurpassable, think of Me as having become manifest from the unmanifest.
बुद्धिहीन मनुष्य मेरे सर्वश्रेष्ठ अविनाशी परमभावको न जानते हुए अव्यक्त (मन-इन्द्रियोंसे पर) मुझ सच्चिदानन्दघन परमात्माको मनुष्यकी तरह ही शरीर धारण करनेवाला मानते हैं।Commentary
The ignorant take Lord Krishna as a common mortal. They think that He has taken a body like ordinary human beings from the unmanifested state on account of the force of Karma of the previous birth. They have no knowledge of His higher, imperishable and selfluminous nature as the Highest Self. They think that He has just now come into manifestation, though He is selfexistent, eternal, beginningless, endless, birthless, deathless, changeless, infinite and unmanifest.