Krishna addresses a common misunderstanding. Those without true understanding think I was once unmanifest and then became manifest — that I simply took on a human form, as if I had no existence before. They do not know My supreme, imperishable, unsurpassed nature.
The sky was always there. Clouds come and go, but the sky never changes. Krishna's human form is like a window through which the infinite can be glimpsed. But behind that form lies an eternal reality — beginningless, endless, and beyond decay.
This shloka invites humility. Do we see Krishna only as a historical person who walked the earth? Or do we recognize the timeless, boundless nature that the human form barely hints at?