desah -- the place; kalah -- time; prithak dravyam -- particular items of paraphernalia; mantra -- Vedic hymns; tantra -- prescribed rituals; ritvijah -- priests; agnayah -- sacrificial fires; devatah -- the presiding demigods; yajamanah -- the performer of the sacrifice; ca -- and; kratuh -- the offering; dharmah -- the invisible power of fruitive results; ca -- and; yat -- whom; mayah -- constituting; tam -- Him; brahma paramam -- the Supreme Absolute Truth; sakshat -- directly manifest; bhagavantam -- the Personality of Godhead; adhokshajam -- who is transcendental to material senses; manushya-drishtya -- seeing Him as an ordinary man; dushprajnah -- perverted in their intelligence; martya-atmanah -- falsely identifying themselves with the material body; na menire -- they did not properly honor.

Although the ingredients of sacrificial performance -- the place, time, particular paraphernalia, mantras, rituals, priests, fires, demigods, performer, offering and the as yet unseen beneficial results -- are all simply aspects of His opulences, the brahmanas saw Lord Krishna as an ordinary human because of their perverted intelligence. They failed to recognize that He is the Supreme Absolute Truth, the directly manifest Personality of Godhead, whom the material senses cannot ordinarily perceive. Thus bewildered by their false identification with the mortal body, they did not show Him proper respect.