Text 37]
Lord Kṛṣṇa's Entrance in Dvārakā
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TEXT 37
तमयं मन्यते लोको ह्यसङ्गमपि सङ्गिनम् । आत्मोपम्येन मनुजं व्यापृष्वानं यतोऽबुधः ॥३७॥
tam ayam manyate loko hyasaṅgam api saṅginam ātmaupamyena manujam vyāpṛṇvānam yato 'budhaḥ
tam —unto Lord Kṛṣṇa;  ayam —all these (common men);  manyate — do  speculate within the mind;  lokaḥ —the conditioned souls;  hi —certainly;  asaṅgam —unattached;  api —in spite of;  saṅginam —affected;  ātma —self;  aupamyena —by comparison with the self;  manujam —ordinary man;  vyāpṛṇvānam —being engaged in;  yataḥ —because;  abudhaḥ —foolish because of ignorance.
TRANSLATION
The common materialistic conditioned souls speculate that the Lord is one of them. Out of their ignorance they think that the Lord is affected by matter, although He is unattached.
PURPORT
The word  abudhaḥ  is significant here. Due to ignorance only, the foolish mundane wranglers misunderstand the Supreme Lord and spread their foolish imaginations amongst innocent persons by propaganda. The Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original primeval Personality of Godhead, and when He was personally present before the eyes of everyone, He displayed full-fledged divine potency in every field of activities. As we have already explained in the first verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, He is completely independent to act however He likes, but all His actions are full of bliss, knowledge and eternity. Only the foolish mundaners misunderstand Him, unaware of His eternal form of knowledge and bliss which is confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  and  Upaniṣads . His different potencies work in a perfect plan of natural sequence, and doing everything by the agency of His different potencies, He remains eternally the supreme independent.