"O Muni, they knew Krishna as only one enjoyable and not as Brahma. The
Gunas were mixed up in their understanding of Krishna. How could there
then be a cessation of the flow of the Gunas?"
(Husbands, sons and others, even they themselves were Brahma in essence.
But a devotion to them could not cause Moksha as they were not known as
Brahma. How could union with Krishna cause Moksha, when he was not known
as Brahma? Therefore this doubt. _Sridhara_.)