Suppose if you are called for fighting with your enemies, you are ready. But if somebody says that, "You fight with your sons and daughters and wives and your friends," oh, you'll hesitate. That is quite natural.
So Arjuna was placed in such a position that, "I have to fight with my relatives." So he was perplexed. He was perplexed, and there was some argument. We have already discussed. And Kṛṣṇa said that when the question of fighting is there, it doesn't matter who are they on the opposite party. "You are a kṣhatriya. You are a fighting man. It is your duty to fight. You should not hesitate."
But Arjuna could not be satisfied with such arguments, and . . . (indistinct)
Arjuna could not be satisfied with such argument. He declined to fight, and then he surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, Your; "Kṛṣṇa, we are now talking as friends. Now I am . . . I am serious about learning from You." Because Arjuna knew it perfectly well that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. "So whatever instruction I will have from Kṛṣṇa, that will be perfect. That will be perfect."
We have several times discussed in this meeting that a ordinary being, just like we are, we are subjected to four principles of imperfectness. But an incarnation of God or a real representative of God, they are above these, I mean, four principles of imperfectness. That is the way of . . . why we are giving so much stress on the Bhagavad-gītā? There are many books available in the market, full of good instruction, knowledge, but why we are giving so much stress on the Bhagavad-gītā? Because it is spoken by a personality who is above all imperfection.
What are these imperfection? The imperfections are that a conditioned soul just like we are, we are sure to commit mistake. There is nobody in the world, in this conditional state, who can boldly say that, "I have never committed any mistake in my life." Is there anybody? No. We have committed so many mistakes. Even a perfect . . . I shall speak of our country. Our country, Mahatma Gandhi, he was supposed to be a very great, I mean to say, perfect leader of the country. He, He also committed mistakes, so many. And what to speak of us. What to speak of us. So a conditioned soul is sure to commit mistake. That is one imperfection.
And the next imperfection is to accept something in place of something. Just like we are accepting this body as myself, which I am not. Under this illusion . . . everyone is under this illusion, nobody excepted. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke (SB 10.84.13).