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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 1]
whereas Kṛṣṇa appears in His original, spiritual form. Unfortunately, those who are not advanced in spiritual knowledge think that Kṛṣṇa is like one of them and that His form is like their material forms.  Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam  (Bg. 9.11). Kṛṣṇa is never puffed up by material knowledge and is therefore called  acyuta , whereas the living entities fall down and are agitated by material nature. This is the difference between the Supreme Lord and the living entities.
In this connection it is to be noted that Vasudeva, who was situated in a transcendental position, advised Kaṁsa not to commit further sinful activities. Kaṁsa, a representative of the demons, was always ready to kill Kṛṣṇa, or God, whereas Vasudeva represents a transcendentally situated person to whom Kṛṣṇa is born (Vāsudeva is the son of Vasudeva). Vasudeva wanted his brother-in-law Kaṁsa to refrain from the sinful act of killing his sister, since the result of being agitated by material nature would be that Kaṁsa would have to accept a body in which to suffer again and again. Elsewhere in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (5.5.4), Rṣabhadeva also says:
na sādhu manye yata ātmano 'yam asann api kleśada āsa dehaḥ
As long as the living entity is entangled in the fruitive activities of so-called happiness and distress, he will receive a particular type of body in which to endure the three kinds of suffering due to material nature ( tri-tāpa-yantraṇā ). An intelligent person, therefore, must free himself from the influence of the three modes of material nature and revive his original, spiritual body by engaging in the service of the Supreme Person, Kṛṣṇa. As long as one is materially attached, one must accept the process of birth, death, old age and disease. One is therefore advised that an intelligent person, instead of being entangled in so-called good and bad fruitive activities, should engage his life in advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness so that instead of accepting another material body ( tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ), he will return home, back to Godhead.
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तस्मान्न कस्यचिद् द्रोहमाचरेत् स तथाविधः।
आत्मनः क्षेममन्विच्छन् द्रोग्धुवै परतो भयम्॥४४॥