7.24
Chapter 7, Verse 24
अव्यक्तं व्यक्ितमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः। परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम्৷৷
avyaktaṅ vyakitamāpannaṅ manyantē māmabuddhayaḥ. paraṅ bhāvamajānantō mamāvyayamanuttamam৷৷
Translation
The ignorant think of Me, who am the Unmanifested Spirit, as if I were really in human form. They do not understand that My Superior Nature is changeless and most excellent.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
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.
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.