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Chapter 9
The human body of the Lord, is not the fruit of any action. He incarnates by His own free-will (Brimadbhagavata 10/33/35) as a fish, a tortoise, or a boar etc., He does not depend on a body, but the body, an evolute of Nature, depends on Him, because He manifests Himself, keeping His Nature under control (Gita 4/6).
Fools, treating the Lord as an ordinary being, do not seek refuge in Him, because they do not know, His divine play, rather, they consider Him, as a slave to a body. The some fact, has been pointed out, in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth verses of the seventh chapter, when the Lord declares, "Not knowing My unsurpassable and undecaying supreme state, these ignorant folk, do not recognise Me, as the unborn and imperishable Supreme Spirit." So, they instead of taking refuge in the Lord, seek refuge, in other gods (Gita 7/20).
Avajananti mam[1] mudha:—Fools disregard the Lord, under Whose supervision Nature brings forth and merges infinite universes, Who controls the activities of the universes and Who by His grace has bestowed, this human body. They think, lowly of Him, by regarding Him, as a common earthbound man, and attaching importance to mundane prosperity and pleasure.
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