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Nature & guṇasChapter 9 · The Most Confidential Knowledge
9.119.13

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 9.12

Delusion concerning Krishna’s true nature

मोघाशा मोघकर्माणो मोघज्ञाना विचेतस: ।

राक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिता: ॥ १२ ॥

moghāśā mogha-karmāṇo

mogha-jñānā vicetasaḥ

rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva

prakṛtiṁ mohinīṁ śritāḥ

Translation

Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Delusion Defeats Spiritual Hopes

  1. 1Those drawn to demonic and atheistic views find their hopes for liberation, work for rewards, and pursuit of knowledge defeated.
  2. 2Prabhupāda explains that even supposed devotees cannot return to Godhead if they do not truly accept Kṛṣṇa as the Absolute Truth.
  3. 3Accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not as an ordinary human being.

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Chapter 9, The Most Confidential Knowledge: delusion concerning krishna’s true nature.

What it teaches

Theme summary

The modes of nature condition behavior.

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Key ideas in this verse

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Key ideas: prakṛti, guṇa.

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BG 9.11Delusion concerning Krishna’s true natureBG 7.14Crossing beyond māyā

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