Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 289

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-9 Rāja-vidyā Rāja--guhya Yogaḥ

moghāśā mogha-karmāṇo mogha-jñānā vicetasaḥ | rākṣasīm-āsurīṃ caiva prakṛtiṃ mohinīṃ śritāḥ || 12 || 12. Of vain hopes, of vain works and vain knowledge and insensible, verily they have a deceitful nature like that of the night-wanderers (Rakṣasas) and jealous-gods (Asuras). Commentary “Disregarding My transcendental disposition of supreme compassion etc, when I appear as a human; they yield to the deceptive lower drives of brutish beings. Their hopes remain futile, their enterprises remain ineffectual, and their knowledge is unproductive. This is due to their mistaken perception which fails to recognise that all things, mobile and immobile, belong to Me. They are ignorant because of the lack of knowledge of the all pervading Truth. Whatever they do regarding Me, the Lord of all, is done with an attitude that I am an ordinary mortal. So their efforts are all worthless.” — this is the meaning.