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"My dear Arjuna, you are not talking like a learned man. You are thinking that you are very learned man, that you are talking with Me, that 'What will happen to this, to that, if I fight?' You have wasted so much time. But actually I find that you are a fool number one. You do not know anything," asocyan anvasocas tvam, "because you are lamenting for things for which one should not lament. What is that? This body. You are thinking of this body of your relative, and because they will be in the war, they will be killed. You are thinking like that. But actually this is not the subject matter of pondering. The real subject matter is how to save the soul." Therefore He began instructing that "We are not this body; we are soul." Dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara, tatha dehantara-prapti [Bg 2.13]. In this way He gave first instruction that we are not this body.    (More...)