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TEXT 12 moghasa mogha-karmano
SYNONYMS  mogha-asah--baffled
hope; mogha-karmanah--baffled in fruitive activities; mogha-jnanah--baffled
in knowledge; vicetasah--bewildered; raksasim--demonic; asurim--atheistic;
ca--and;
eva--certainly; prakrtim--nature; mohinim--bewildering;
sritah--taking
shelter of.
TRANSLATION Those who
are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that
deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities,
and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.
PURPORT There are many
devotees who assume themselves to be in Krsna consciousness and devotional
service but at heart do not accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, as the Absolute Truth. For them, the fruit of devotional service--going
back to Godhead--will never be tasted. Similarly, those who are engaged
in fruitive, pious activities and who are ultimately hoping to be liberated
from this material entanglement will never be successful either because
they deride the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. In other words,
persons who mock Krsna are to be understood to be demonic or atheistic.
As described in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, such demonic
miscreants never surrender to Krsna. Therefore their mental speculations
to arrive at the Absolute Truth bring them to the false conclusion that
the ordinary living entity and Krsna are one and the same. With such a
false conviction, they think that the body of any human being is now simply
covered by material nature and that as soon as one is liberated from this
material body there is no difference between God and himself. This attempt
to become one with Krsna will be baffled because of delusion. Such atheistic
and demoniac cultivation of spiritual knowledge is always futile. That
is the indication of this verse. For such persons, cultivation of the knowledge
in the Vedic literature, like the Vedanta-sutra and the Upanisads,
is always baffled.
It is a
great offense, therefore, to consider Krsna, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, to be an ordinary man. Those who do so are certainly deluded because
they cannot understand the eternal form of Krsna. In the Brhad-viasnava
mantra it is clearly stated that one who considers the body of Krsna
to be material should be driven out from all rituals and activities of
the sruti. And if one by chance sees his face, he should at once
take bath in the Ganges to rid himself of infection. People jeer at Krsna
because they are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their destiny
is certainly to take birth after birth in the species of atheistic and
demoniac life. Perpetually, their real knowledge will remain under delusion,
and gradually they will regress to the darkest region of creation.
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