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Preface xix

Kṛṣṇa explains this “devotional common sense” to Arjuna:

man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam
ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ

“Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances
and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you
will come to Me.” (Bg 9.34)

As our Guru Mahārāja has written in his preface to Bhagavad-
gītā As It Is: “Our business is to present the will of Kṛṣṇa, not
that of any mundane speculator like the politician, philosopher
or scientist, for they have very little knowledge of Kṛṣṇa,
despite all their other knowledge. When Kṛṣṇa says, man-manā
bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru, etc., we, unlike
the so-called scholars, do not say that Kṛṣṇa and His inner
spirit are different. Kṛṣṇa is absolute, and there is no difference
between Kṛṣṇa’s name, Kṛṣṇa’s form, Kṛṣṇa’s quality, Kṛṣṇa’s
pastimes, etc.

“This absolute position of Kṛṣṇa is difficult to understand for any
person who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa in the paramparā (disciplic
succession) system. Generally the so-called scholars, politicians,
philosophers, and svāmīs, without perfect knowledge of Kṛṣṇa,
try to banish or kill Kṛṣṇa when writing commentary on
Bhagavad-gītā. Such unauthorized commentary upon Bhagavad-
gītā is known as Māyāvāda-bhāṣya, and Lord Caitanya has
warned us about these unauthorized men. Lord Caitanya clearly
says that anyone who tries to understand Bhagavad-gītā from
the Māyāvādī point of view will commit a great blunder. The
result of such a blunder will be that the misguided student
of Bhagavad-gītā will certainly be bewildered on the path of