Verse 9.11

अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम् ।

परं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम् ॥

9.11

Transliteration

avajānanti māṃ mūḍhā mānuṣīṃ tanumāśritam |

paraṃ bhāvamajānanto mama bhūtamaheśvaram ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of (all) beings.

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Word by word

disregard
me
the deluded
human
body
having taken

supreme
nature
not knowing
my
great lord of beings

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna speaks of those who fail to recognize him. Fools disregard him because he has taken a human body. They do not know his higher being as the great lord of all beings. The verse names a temptation present throughout the Gita: to see Krishna merely as a man, a prince and a charioteer. Traditions explain the human form in different ways, but all agree that its ordinariness can conceal what it reveals. For Arjuna, who knows Krishna as a friend, this is a gentle challenge.