Bhagavat Gita 7-23 : Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are
limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the
demigods, but My devotees ultimately reach My supreme planet.
Bhagvad Gita 7-24:The foolish regard Me as the unmanifested coming in manifestation,
knowing not My higher, immutable, unsurpassed nature. Not knowing my higher nature as
the Supreme Self,
the ignorant think that I have just now come into manifestation, having been unmanifested
hitherto, though I am the ever luminous Lord.To what is their ignorance due
The gita also suggests that it is wrong to believe that God in the manifested form can be
worshipped, because if done so, then it is done by people of lesser intelligence!
Further,
na tasya pratima asti” (There is no image of Him) [Yajurved 32 : 3]
Bhagvad Gita 7:23- antavat tu phalam tesam
tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam
devan deva-yajo yanti
mad-bhakta yanti mam api
Bhagvad Gita 7:24- avyaktam vyaktim apannam
manyante mam abuddhayah
param bhavam ajananto
mamavyayam anuttamam
these are the sanskrit slokas of the above english translations of thhe gita above.