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whereas Krsna appears in His original, spiritual form. Unfortunately,
those who are not advanced in spiritual knowledge think that Krsna is
like one of them and that His form is like their material forms.
Avajananti mar midhé ménusin tanum aéritam (Bg. 9.11). Krsna 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 Karnsa not to commit further sinful
activities. Karnsa, a representative of the demons, was always ready to
kill Krsna, or God, whereas Vasudeva represents a transcendentally situ-
ated person to whom Krsna is born (Vasudeva is the son of Vasudeva).
Vasudeva wanted his brother-in-law Karnsa to refrain from the sinful act
of killing his sister, since the result of being agitated by material nature
would be that Karnsa would have to accept a body in which to suffer
again and again. Elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam (5.5.4), Rsabhadeva
also says:

na sddhu manye yata Gtmano ’yam
asann api klesada dsa dehah

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-
tépa-yantranda). 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 Per-
son, Krsna. 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 Krsna con-
sciousness so that instead of accepting another material body (tyaktva
deharh punar janma naiti), he will return home, back to Godhead.

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