Text 5] King Citraketu’s Lamentation 7
ye ‘nye ’ravindaksa vimukta-mdninas
tvayy asta-bhavad avisuddha-buddhayah
Gruhya krechrena param padam tatah
patanty adho ’nddrta-yusmad-anghrayah
“O Lord, the intelligence of those who think themselves liberated but
who have no devotion is impure. Even though they rise to the highest
point of liberation by dint of severe penances and austerities, they are
sure to fall down again into material existence, for they do not take
shelter at Your lotus feet.” Evidence of this same point is also given in
Bhagavad-gita (9.11), wherein the Lord says:
avajananti mam midha
manusim tanum asritam
param bhavam ajananto
mama. bhitta-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.”
When rascals (midhas) see that Krsna acts exactly like a human being,
they deride the transcendental form of the Lord because they do not
know the param bhavam, His transcendental form and activities. Such
persons are further described in Bhagavad-gita (9.12) as follows:
moghasa mogha-karmano
mogha-jnana vicetasah
raksasim dsurim caiva
prakrtim mohinim sritah
“Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demoniac and atheistic
views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive
activities and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.”’ Such persons
do not know that Krsna’s body is not material. There is no distinction be-
tween Krsna’s body and His soul, but because less intelligent men see
Krsna as a human being, they deride Him. They cannot imagine how a
person like Krsna could be the origin of everything (govindam adi-
