back to Godhead, never to return to this universe of manifold
miseries. In the Bhagavaa-gita, the Lord confirms this as follows:

janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ’rjuna

“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance
and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again
in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”
(Bg. 4.9)

But there are foolish persons who take Him to be an ordinary
man, not knowing the essence of His transcendental features. In
Bhagavaa-gita, the Lord affirms this:

avajananti mam mudha
manusim tanum asritam

param bhavam ajananto
mama bhiita-mahesvaram

‘‘Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do
not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion
over all that be.” (Bg. 9.11)m

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