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"My dear Arjuna, you are talking like a very learned man, but the subject matter which you have touched is not at all taken seriously by the panḍita." Panḍita means learned man. That means, "You are talking like a fool. You are taking this body as self." So actually this is not the fact. The body is not the self. The self is different. If you analyze this body, what you will find? Suppose we are breathing. What is this breathing? It is air only. Now, when the breathing is stopped, a man is dead. Now you are so much advanced in science, why don't you replace this breathing? It is nothing but air. So you can manufacture some machine working in electric battery, and put some air and fix up, and that same air will come: woosh, woosh, woosh, woosh. Will you..., that give you life? No. Even if you artificially bring breathing, just like nowadays they, with oxygen gas, as if oxygen gas is life... That is not the fact. So if you analyze every part of the body, then you will find that there is no life. This is called education. This is called scientific knowledge. Simply abruptly taking something without any proper understanding, that is not knowledge. Therefore Krsna chastised him that "You are talking like very scientific, learned scholar, but you are a fool number one because you are accepting this material body as the self." This is ignorance. This is confirmed in another place, yasyatma-buddhiḥ kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13].    (More...)

So as Arjuna... We are reading Bhagavad-gita; you can understand that Arjuna is a friend. Why he's accepting Krsna as guru? Why? He's a friend. He's talking equally, sitting equally, friend and friend, sometimes talking nonsense. Krsna... In the Eleventh Chapter he was begging Krsna, "Forgive me. As a friend I have misbehaved with You." Friend has got right that. Krsna did not mind for that. But he knew that "Krsna, although He is my friend, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, He is the proper person to become my guru." And he says also that "The perplexity which I have been put into now in this battlefield, this cannot be solved by anyone else except Yourself." That he said also.    (More...)