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Bhagavad-gñā   Às   It   Is
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Śrī Yāmunācārya Albandru of South India said, “O my Lord! You are unknowable to persons involved with atheistic principles despite Your uncommon qualities, features, and activities and despite Your personality being confirmed by all the revealed scriptures in the quality of goodness, and despite Your being acknowledged by the famous authorities renowned for their depth of knowledge in the transcendental science and situated in the godly qualities.”
Therefore, (1) grossly foolish persons, (2) the lowest of mankind, (3) the deluded speculators, and (4) the professed atheists, as above mentioned, never surrender unto the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead in spite of all scriptural and authoritative advice.
TEXT 16
चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन । आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ ॥१६॥
catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ janāḥ sukṛtino ’rjuna ārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha
catur-vidhāḥ —four kinds of;  bhajante —render services;  mām —unto Me;  janāḥ —persons;  sukṛtinaḥ —those who are pious;  arjuna —O Arjuna;  ārtaḥ —the distressed;  jijñāsuḥ —the inquisitive;  artha-arthī —one who desires material gain;  jñānī —one who knows things as they are;  ca —also;  bharatarṣabha —O great one amongst the descendants of Bharata.
TRANSLATION
O best among the Bhāratas [Arjuna], four kinds of pious men render devotional service unto Me—the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.
PURPORT
Unlike the miscreants, these are adherents of the regulative principles of the scriptures, and they are called  sukṛtina , or those who obey the rules