Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9 - Rajavidya Rajaguhya Yoga - Sloka 11

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The Ways of the Ignorant 11-12
1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 9 - Rajavidya Rajaguhya Yoga - Sloka 11

Avajananti mam moodhah manushim tanum ashritam I

Param bhavam ajanantah mama bhuta maheshwaram II sloka 11

अवजानन्ति मां  मूदाः मानुषीं तनुं आश्रितं Iपरम् भावं अजानन्तः मम भूत महेश्वरम् II श्लोक 11

Fools disregard me as one clad in human form, not knowing my higher nature as the great Lord of beings. 

The Lord who is not bound by karma is not bound by human form also. Akasa is not limited by the forms taken by the other four elements. While containing all of them in itself it expands undivided into infinity. The same is the case with the cid-akasa  as well. It is eternally pure, wakeful and pure. Though this paramatman is the common background to the entire creation, He assumes occasionally a perfect human form  and seems to be enshrined in it, solely with the object of teaching humanity that it is possible for them also not to be bound by the body while residing in it. Not knowing this divine play of the Lord, they treat the incarnation also as an earth bound one and slight him.

The elephant has the visible tusks and invisible set of teeth. Similarly incarnations like Sri Krishna have the human and the divine combinedin them. While appearing as the human, they are transcendental divine, unaffected by karma and things mundane.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa