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persons who ignore or are ignorant of the proper
understanding of the Vedic revelation.

Even the demigods who are universal administrators
in charge of the sun, moon, wind, rain, etc., and
populate the material universe with living entities
have difficulties understanding Lord Krishna. The
chief demigods are Brahma and Siva. Brahma is the
subordinate creator of the material universe after
Lord Krishna and Siva is in charge of its annihilation.
Brahma and Shiva are sometimes baffled by the
inconceivable potencies and infinite personal
expansions of Lord Krishna. In the same way, the
greatest sages in the universe who are authorities of
Vedic wisdom are also incapable of understanding
the intricacies of Lord Krishna’s mystic powers. They
may attempt to speculate philosophically to arrive at
knowledge of the Lord. But, they will fail because of
the four fundamental defects of every living entity:
mistakes, illusion, imperfect senses and a cheating
propensity. They may arrive by their intellectual
efforts to understand the impersonal concept of
God by negating all the positive manifest temporary
qualities of the material world. They say that the
absolute truth cannot be this or that and thus negate
everything that is not the truth in their estimation
because of its temporary nature. Thus, they end
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