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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Here Lord Kṛṣṇa says that, "Myself, yourself and all others who have come here . . ." There were about sixty millions of people assembled in that fight. It was not a small fight. In India there was . . . of course, that was also great world, world war. Just like we had experience . . . I think in the First World War none of you have seen, because you were all young men. And we were child. When the First World War was declared, we were all boys, schoolchildren. My age was at that time fourteen years old, in 1914, when there was fight declared between Germany and Belgium. So that was the First World War. Then Second World War was in 1939.
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[[Vanisource:660307 - Lecture BG 02.12 - New York|660307 - Lecture BG 02.12 - New York]]
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Just like water: You keep in different pots. In different pots you keep water. So the water takes the shape of the pot, the bowl, round bowl. You keep water, the water takes the shape of round. So similarly, there are thousands of, or millions of, water pots, and suppose all the waters are mixed up. Then there is no distinction, just like they were in the pots. So their theory is that when a soul is liberated, then the . . . that it mixes up with the Supersoul. Just like a drop of water taken from the sea water and again put it into the sea, it mixes up. It loses its identity. So that is one theory.

But here Lord Kṛṣṇa says that, "Myself, yourself and all others who have come here . . ." There were about sixty millions of people assembled in that fight. It was not a small fight. In India there was . . . of course, that was also great world, world war. Just like we had experience . . . I think in the First World War none of you have seen, because you were all young men. And we were child. When the First World War was declared, we were all boys, schoolchildren. My age was at that time fourteen years old, in 1914, when there was fight declared between Germany and Belgium. So that was the First World War. Then Second World War was in 1939. That was also German and Englishmen, like that. But actually, this was also World War, this Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, because all the kings of the world, they joined either this party or that party.
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