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So this is knowledge. This is knowledge. And when you come to the right knowledge, after many, many births... Even Maharaja Yudhisthira... Of course, he is playing the part of ordinary man, pious man. Pious man is also not perfect. Yudhisthira Maharaja should have thought like this, that "Yes, this body does not belong to me, but it belongs to Krsna, and Krsna desired that with this body there must be fighting for His satisfaction." So Arjuna thought like that. Arjuna thought like that. Therefore Arjuna is higher grade devotee than Yudhisthira Maharaja. Yudhisthira Maharaja has got personal consideration. When Krsna advised him that "You go to Dronacarya and speak this lie, that his son Asvatthama is dead; otherwise he'll not die. You go and speak," so he hesitated. He said, "How is that? I never spoke lie. How can I go and say him the lie?" So this personal consideration is there, that "If I speak lies, then I will be sinful, and I'll be punished and so on, so on." But a devotee does not think like that. "Maybe it is sinful, but it will satisfy Krsna; I must do it." This is devotee's decision.    (More...)