CC Madhya 25.39 (1996)

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Madhya-līlā - Chapter 25: How All the Residents of Vārāṇasī Became Vaiṣṇavas

Madhya-līlā 25.38 - Madhya-līlā 25.40

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 39

avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā

mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam

paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto

mama bhūta-maheśvaram

SYNONYMS

avajānanti — decry; mām — Me; mūḍhāḥ — rascals; mānuṣīm — just like a human being; tanum — a body; āśritam — accepted; param — supreme; bhāvam — position; ajānantaḥ — without knowing; mama — My; bhūta-mahā-īśvaram — exalted position as the Supreme Person, creator of the material world.

TRANSLATION

"'Fools disrespect Me because I appear like a human being. They do not know My supreme position as the cause of all causes, the creator of the material energy.'

PURPORT

This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (BG 9.11).

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