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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Arjuna was hesitating to fight, "How can I kill my nephew, my brother, my grandfather," and so on, so on. So Kṛṣṇa was instructing him that, "It is your duty. As a kṣatriya, when there is battle, you should fight. You should not deviate from your duty." That was the conversation was going on.
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[[Vanisource:720405 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Melbourne|720405 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Melbourne]]
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I do not know what is pains and pleasure is going on within your body. That is not possible for me to understand. Neither you can understand what pains and pleasure I am feeling. But God knows. God knows the pains and pleasure of your body; He knows pains and pleasure of my body. That is the difference between God and ourself.

So the problem . . . here it is said that, "Try to understand what you are. Are you this body, or you are something separate from the body?" We are separate, from the very beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā. The first lesson given to Arjuna was this:

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:aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ
:prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase
:gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca
:nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ 
:([[Vanisource:BG 2.11 (1972)|BG 2.11]])
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Arjuna was hesitating to fight, "How can I kill my nephew, my brother, my grandfather," and so on, so on. So Kṛṣṇa was instructing him that, "It is your duty. As a kṣatriya, when there is battle, you should fight. You should not deviate from your duty." That was the conversation was going on. But Arjuna was thinking only in terms of this body. "He is my grandfather. He is my brother. He is my countryman. He is my this." Why? Because they have got some bodily relation.

You are thinking one boy here, because he is Australian, you are thinking more intimate relationship with him, and because I am Indian, you may not think more . . . in such intimacy. Because the bodily connection is there. But Kṛṣṇa said that, "This is not very intelligent knowledge." Gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca. A person who does not lament for this body, he is actually learned. Gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.11 (1972)|BG 2.11]]). Paṇḍita means learned scholar. So either this body is in living condition or it is in dead condition, a paṇḍita, a learned scholar, one who knows things as they are, he does not take care of this body. Not take care actually; he does not think very seriously about this body.
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