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Երիտոսություն  —  Երիտոսություն  —  Երիտոսություն
[Ch. 11]
interest, Kṛṣṇa is not easy to understand. Nor is He to be understood by persons who officially go to the temple to offer worship. They make their visit, but they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa as He is. Kṛṣṇa can be understood only through the path of devotional service, as explained by Kṛṣṇa Himself in the next verse.
TEXT 54
भक्त्या त्वनन्यया शक्य अहमेवंविधोऽर्जुन । ज्ञातुं द्रष्टुं च तत्त्वेन प्रवेष्टुं च परंतप ॥५४॥
bhaktyā tv ananyayā śakya aham evaṁ-vidho'rjuna jñātuṁ draṣṭuṁ ca tattvena praveṣtuṁ ca parantapa
bhaktyā —by devotional service;  tu —but;  ananyayā —without being mixed with fruitive activities or speculative knowledge;  śakyaḥ —possible;  aham —I;  evam-vidhaḥ —like this;  arjuna —O Arjuna;  jñātum —to know;  draṣṭum —to see;  tattvena —in fact;  praveṣṭum —and to enter into;  ca —also;  parantapa —O mighty-armed one.
TRANSLATION
My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.
PURPORT
Krṣṇa can be understood only by the process of undivided devotional service. He explicitly explains this in this verse so unauthorized commentators, who try to understand  Bhagavad-gītā  by the speculative process, will know that they are simply wasting their time. No one can understand Krṣṇa or how He came from parents in a four-handed form and at once changed Himself into a two-handed form. It is clearly stated here that no one can see Him. Those who, however, are very experienced students of Vedic literature can learn about Him from the Vedic literature in so many ways. There are so many rules and regulations, and if one at all wants to understand Krṣṇa, he must follow the regulative principles described in