Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 24
अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धय: ।
परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम् ॥
avyaktaṃ vyaktim-āpannaṃ
manyante mām-abuddhaya:
paraṃ bhāvam-ajānanto
mamāvyayam-anuttamam – 7.24
Not knowing My imperishable transcendental nature, which is par supreme, unintelligent people consider Me, the invisible spiritual presence, as limited by the visible body.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 24
Ma Gurupriya
By way of revelation, Krishna said he had had many births, and so too had Arjuna (4.5). Krishna knew them well, but Arjuna did not. That was only one facet of Krishna’s personality. Here Krishna discloses another.
He has, he says, the invisible, transcendental aspect, which has courted embodiment. Krishna is not the body, a matter-energy aggregate, which hosts the infinite Soul, Consciousness. The Soul is neither solid nor fluid nor gaseous, like material substances, hence not perceptible to the senses.
Unintelligent people think he has, in having courted embodiment, lost his infinitely permeating transcendental form. The truth is that the limitation and grossness inhere only outside. Inwardly Krishna as well as any other Knower, is transcendental and supreme. The entire gross creation, like the body, is but a manifestation of the inner spiritual presence, which has infinite resourcefulness.
