60 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 2

devasya—of the Personality of Godhead; mayaya—by the influence of
external energy; sprstah—infected; ye—all those; ca—and; anyat—others;
asat—illusory; asritah—being taken to; bhramyate -bewilder; dhih—
intelligence; na—not; tat—that; vakyaih—by those words; atmani—in the
Supreme Self; uptatmanah—surrendered souls; harau—unto the Lord.

TRANSLATION

Under no circumstances can the words of persons who are bewildered
by the illusory energy of the Lord deviate the intelligence of those who are
completely surrendered souls.

PURPORT

Lord Sri Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to all
the evidences of the Vedas. He is accepted by all acaryas, including Sripada
Sankaracarya. But when He was present in the world, different classes of
men accepted Him differently, and therefore their calculations of the Lord
were also different. Generally, persons who had faith in the revealed
scriptures accepted the Lord as He is, and all of them merged into great
bereavement when the Lord disappeared from the world. In the First
Canto we have already discussed the lamentation of Arjuna and
Yudhisthira, to whom the disappearance of Lord Krsna was almost
intolerable up to the end of their lives.

The Yadavas were only partially cognizant of the Lord, but they are
also glorious because they had the opportunity to associate with the Lord,
who acted as the head of their family, and they also rendered the Lord
intimate service. The Yadavas and other devotees of the Lord are different
from those who wrongly calculated Him to be an ordinary human
personality. Such persons are certainly bewildered by the illusory energy.
They are hellish and are envious of the Supreme Lord. The illusory energy
acts very powerfully on them because in spite of their clevated mundane
education, such persons are faithless and are infected by the mentality of
atheism. They are always very eager to establish that Lord Krsna was an
ordinary man who was killed by a hunter due to His many impious acts in
plotting to kill the sons of Dhrtarastra and Jarasandha, the demonic kings
of the earth. Such persons have no faith in the statement of the Bhagavad-
gita that the Lord is unaffected by the reactions of work: na mam
tant dharmani limpanti. According to the atheistic point of view, Lord
Krsna’s family, the Yadu dynasty, was vanquished due to being cursed by
the brahmanas for the sins committed by Krsna in killing the sons of
Dhrtarastra, etc. All these blasphemies do not touch the heart of the
