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TEXT 25 naham prakasah sarvasya
SYNONYMS  na--nor;
aham--I; prakasah--manifest; sarvasya--to everyone;
yoga-maya--internal potency; samavrtah--covered; mudhah--foolish;
ayam--this; na--not; abhijanati--can understand; lokah--such
less intelligent persons; mam--Me; ajam--unborn; avyayam--inexhaustible.
TRANSLATION I am never
manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My
eternal creative potency [yoga-maya]; and so the deluded world knows Me
not, who am unborn and infallible.
PURPORT It may be argued
that since Krsna was present on this earth and was visible to everyone,
then why isn't He manifest to everyone now? But actually He was not manifest
to everyone. When Krsna was present there were only a few people who could
understand Him to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the assembly
of Kurus, when Sisupala spoke against Krsna being elected president of
the assembly, Bhisma supported Him and proclaimed Him to be the Supreme
God. Similarly, the Pandavas and a few others knew that He was the Supreme,
but not everyone. He was not revealed to the nondevotees and the common
man. Therefore in the Gita Krsna says that but for His pure devotees,
all men consider Him to be like themselves. He was manifest only to His
devotees as the reservoir of all pleasure. But to others, to unintelligent
nondevotees, He was covered by His eternal potency.
In the prayers
of Kunti in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.8.18) it is said that the Lord
is covered by the curtain of yoga-maya and thus ordinary people
cannot understand Him. Kunti prays: "O my Lord, You are the maintainer
of the entire universe, and devotional service to You is the highest religious
principle. Therefore, I pray that You will also maintain me. Your transcendental
form is covered by the yoga-maya. The brahmajyoti is the
covering of the internal potency. May You kindly remove this glowing effulgence
that impedes my seeing Your sac-cid-ananda-vigraha, Your eternal
form of bliss and knowledge."
This yoga-maya
curtain is also mentioned in the Fifteenth Chapter of the Gita.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead in His transcendental form of bliss
and knowledge is covered by the eternal potency of brahmajyoti,
and the less intelligent impersonalists cannot see the Supreme on this
account. Also in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.14.7) there is this prayer
by Brahma: "O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Supersoul, O master of
all mystery, who can calculate Your potency and pastimes in this world?
You are always expanding Your eternal potency, and therefore no one can
understand You. Learned scientists and learned scholars can examine the
atomic constitution of the material world or even the planets, but still
they are unable to calculate Your energy and potency, although You are
present before them." The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna, is
not only unborn, but He is avyaya, inexhaustible. His eternal form
is bliss and knowledge, and His energies are all inexhaustible.
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