Your form is not limiting for you but is liberating for me (7.24)

Your form is not limiting for you but is liberating for me (7.24)

Bhagavad Gita 7.24

avyaktaṁ vyaktim āpannaṁ manyante mām abuddhayaḥ

paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama avyayam anuttamam

Fools think I take a form from what is formless.

They know not my nature—transcendent, endless.

Forever I am the supreme, beyond all decline,

With clouded sight, they miss the divine.

My dear Lord, let me not reduce you to my conceptions, but expand my conceptions to understand you in your full glory. My form limits me to a particular place. Let me not extrapolate from that and assume that you will also be limited by your form.

Bless me, O Almighty Lord, to understand that what limits me is not the fact that I have form, but the fact that my form is material. As your form is spiritual and eternal, it does not limit you in any way. When I mistakenly conceive you as formless, I strip you of your prominent attribute, nay your paramount opulence, of having the most captivating form in all of existence.

Help me, my merciful Lord, to see your form not as something limiting for you but as something empowering, even liberating, for me. What brings me out of illusion caused by attraction to the material is attraction to the spiritual. Among all spiritually attractive realities, the most mesmerizing is your form.

Grant me, O all-attractive Lord, the conviction to celebrate your form as the supreme reality, and the purification to cherish it as the fulfillment of my heart’s deepest aspiration.

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07.24 Unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, was impersonal before and have now assumed this personality. Due to their small knowledge, they do not know My higher nature, which is imperishable and supreme.