Krishna alone is the supreme, all-knowing controller; human imitation of divinity is foolishness born of ignorance.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 4.4 — February 12, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740212BG-VRNDAVAN [50:44 Minutes] Bg-04.04_740212BG-VRNDAVAN __C-098 [poor recording] Pradyumna: [leads the chanting word-for-word and verse] [devotees repeat] arjuna uvāca aparaṁ bhavato janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ katham etad vijānīyāṁ tvam ādau proktavān iti [Bg. 4.4] [break] [01:16]
Prabhupāda: This is the misgiving of ordinary human being—to misunderstand Kṛṣṇa. Generally Kṛṣṇa is understood as a historical person. Therefore suppose if Kṛṣṇa was born as contemporary of Arjuna... Because they were two...
[aside: Who is talking?] The modern scholars also—so-called scholars—they also think that Kṛṣṇa is a person like us. That is spoken in the Bhagavad-gītā that, avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam [Bg. 9.11] Because Kṛṣṇa appears like ordinary human being... Not ordinary. His activities are not ordinary, but still, some foolish mūḍhā—the exact meaning of the mūḍhā means “foolish,” or “rascals”—they think Kṛṣṇa as ordinary.
To accept a human being as God and to accept God as human being, both things are foolishness. God is God; human being is human being. That is the difference. A human being cannot become God, and God cannot become human being. So Kṛṣṇa is not that God which are very cheap nowadays, so-called Gods.
He is not that. He... Just like nowadays by mystic power, by worshiping some demigod one becomes God. These are ludicrous.
You know that a person is going on, is being worshiped as God in a great big Mission. And how he became God? By worshiping Goddess Kālī. This is going on.
Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that, kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ yajante anya-devatāḥ [Bg. 7.20] There is no need of worshiping any demigods. We offer our respect, all respect, to demigods. It is not that we Vaiṣṇavas, we do not offer respect to Goddess Kālī or Lord Śiva; it is not that. We offer proper respect.