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Bhagavad Gita · 9.11 · Yoga through the King of Sciences·11 of 34

अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम्परं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम्

avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣhīṁ tanum āśhritam

paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama bhūta-maheśhvaram

Sanskrit recitation

How people reach for God · 9.11–9.25 · Teaching

Translation

Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of all beings.

Meaning

Fools only find fault with My pure nature, just as a man with jaundiced eyes finds all objects to be yellow. The man who is suffering from fever finds even milk as bitter as the essence of neem. Those who wish to behold Me by means of the physical eyes cannot know Me. If anyone takes the mirage for the Ganga, can he find any water thereFools who do not have discrimination and right understanding despise Me, dwelling in the human form. I have taken this body to bless My devotees. These fools have no knowledge of My higher Being. They do not know that I am the great Lord, the Supreme SElf, the luminous, omniscient, pure, ever free, immortal, wise, the Self of all. These fools take Me for an ordinary mortal and despise Me always. The wise know both My transcendental nature and the glory of My manifestation.I pervade, permeate and interpenetrate the universe. I am the support of this world, body, mind, lifeforce and the senses and yet there are some miserable fools, who say that I do not exist. There is thus not a place anywhere where I am not, and yet these people are not able to see Me. Look at the misfortune of these people. Pitiable is their lot (Cf.IV.6VII.24)

After Swami Sivananda

How people reach for God· 9.11–9.25

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
mama
my
mām
me
param
divine
tanum
form
bhūta
all beings
bhāvam
personality
āśhritam
take on
avajānanti
disregard
ajānantaḥ
not knowing
mānuṣhīm
human
mūḍhāḥ
dim-witted
mahā-īśhvaram
the Supreme Lord

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