Only fools reject Krishna as God while remaining blind to His supremacy, nature, and dominion over all existence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 9.11 — June 30, 1973, Calcutta 730630BG-CALCUTTA [38:23 Minutes] Bg-09.11_730630BG-CALCUTTA Pradyumna: ...yakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ... [Bg. 9.10]
Prabhupāda: No. Next verse. This we have discussed last night. Pradyumna: Oh.
[leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama bhūta-maheśvaram [Bg. 9.11] [break] ...foolish men; mānuṣīm—in a human form; tanum—body; āśritam—assuming; param—transcendental; bhāvam—nature; ajānantaḥ—not knowing; mama—Mine; bhūta—everything that be; maheśvaram—supreme proprietor. [01:13] Translation: "Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be." Prabhupāda: So Kṛṣṇa is not an ordinary man. Therefore Kṛṣṇa warns this: avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ [Bg. 9.11].
Mūḍha, rascals. To accept God as man and to accept man as God, this is rascaldom. Rascaldom means to accept a man as God and to accept God as man. This is rascaldom.
Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ. We can understand who is an intelligent man and who is a rascal by this criterion. In another place Kṛṣṇa says, na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ [Bg. 7.15]: "Mūḍhās, rascals, they do not surrender unto Me." Kṛṣṇa is canvassing... Especially in India He appeared.
He is canvassing, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. He is canvassing. But the mūḍhas, they will not accept it. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ.
"Oh. Why shall I accept Kṛṣṇa? I have got my own God. I manufacture my God." So we have got very short-cut criterion to understand a rascal and intelligent man.