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अव्यक्तं व्यक्ितमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः। परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम्।।7.24।।

avyaktaṁ vyaktim āpannaṁ manyante mām abuddhayaḥ paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mamāvyayam anuttamam

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 7, Verse 24
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, not knowing My higher, immutable, and most excellent nature.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the unwise think of the unmanifest Krishna as having become manifest, not knowing his higher, imperishable, supreme nature, naming a specific limitation in how people conceive of something ultimately beyond ordinary categories.

In life: reducing something genuinely subtle and expansive, love, meaning, a person's full complexity, down to a simple, graspable form is a common but limiting mental shortcut.

Teaching: notice when you've reduced something genuinely complex, a relationship, a value, a goal, to an oversimplified, easily graspable version, and make room again for its actual fuller complexity.

avyaktamformless
vyaktimpossessing a personality
āpannamto have assumed
manyantethink
māmme
abuddhayaḥless intelligent
paramSupreme
bhāvamnature
ajānantaḥnot understanding
mamamy
avyayamimperishable
anuttamamexcellent

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
7.24 अव्यक्तम् the unmanifested? व्यक्तिम् to manifestation? आपन्नम् come to? मन्यन्ते think? माम् Me? अबुद्धयः the foolish? परम् the highest? भावम् nature? अजानन्तः not knowing? मम My? अव्ययम् immutable? अनुत्तमम् most excellent.Commentary The ignorant take Lord Krishna as a common mortal. They think that He has taken a body like ordinary human beings from the unmanifested state on account of the force of Karma of the previous birth. They have no knowledge of His higher? imperishable and selfluminous nature as the Highest Self. They think that He has just now come into manifestation? though He is selfexistent? eternal? beginningless? endless? birthless? deathless? changeless? infinite and unmanifest.