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For the materialists, atheists and speculators Krishna
is considered a historical character, a learned scholar,
an ordinary man who was powerful with a temporary
material body. Ultimately they think the Absolute
Truth is impersonal. Lord Krishna say, “Unintelligent
men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I,
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, 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.” (Bg 7.24) Yamunacharya, one of
the great Alvar Saints has written, “My dear Lord,
devotees like Vyāsadeva and Nārada know You to
be the Personality of Godhead. By understanding
different Vedic literatures, one can come to know
Your characteristics, Your form and Your activities,
and one can thus understand that You are the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. But those who
are in the modes of passion and ignorance, the
demons, the nondevotees, cannot understand You.
They are unable to understand You. However expert
such nondevotees may be in discussing Vedānta
and the Upaniṣads and other Vedic literatures, it is
not possible for them to understand the Personality
of Godhead.” (Stotra-ratna 12) There are many
more foolish speculative theories propounded by

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