Å›ruti-purÄṇa kahe — kṛṣṇera cic-chakti-vilÄsa
tÄhÄ nÄhi mÄni, paṇá¸ita kare upahÄsa
Å›ruti-purÄṇa kahe - the Vedas, the Upaniá¹£ads, the Brahma-sÅ«tra and the PurÄṇas confirm; kṛṣṇera - of Lord Kṛṣṇa; cit-Å›akti-vilÄsa - activities of spiritual potencies; tÄhÄ nÄhi mÄni - not accepting that; paṇá¸ita kare upahÄsa - so-called scholars play jokes without perfect understanding.
“The Vedas, the Upaniá¹£ads, the Brahma-sÅ«tra and the PurÄṇas all describe the activities of the spiritual potency of the Lord. If one cannot accept the personal activities of the Lord, he jokes foolishly and gives an impersonal description.
In the Vedic literatures, including the PurÄṇas, there are full descriptions of the spiritual potency of Kṛṣṇa. All the pastimes of the Lord are eternal, blissful and full of knowledge, just as the form of Kṛṣṇa Himself is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge (sac-cid-Änanda-vigraha). Unintelligent people with a poor fund of knowledge compare their temporary bodies to the spiritual body of Kṛṣṇa, and by such foolishness they try to understand Kṛṣṇa as one of them. AvajÄnanti mÄá¹ mÅ«á¸hÄ mÄnuṣīṠtanum ÄÅ›ritam. The Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (9.11) points out that foolish people think of Kṛṣṇa as one of them. Not understanding His spiritual potency, they simply decry the personal form of the Absolute Truth, foolishly thinking of themselves as jñÄnÄ«s cognizant of the complete truth. They cannot understand that just as the material energy of the Lord has a variety of activities, the spiritual energy has variety also. They consider activities in devotional service the same as activities in material consciousness. Under such a wrong impression, they sometimes dare joke about the spiritual activities of the Lord and His devotional service.
