Now, Arjuna declined to fight, and after hearing Bhagavad-gītā, after understanding Bhagavad-gītā, he agreed, "Yes, I shall fight. Yes." Kṛṣṇa inquired, "Now I have explained to you everything about knowledge, about yoga, about fruitive activities, about devotional service—everything. All-round Vedic wisdom I have explained to you. Now it is up to you to do or not to do."
Mark this. The Supreme Lord can give us instruction. We are individual persons, individual living entities, infinitesimal. The Lord is infinite, and we are infinitesimal. So Lord can advise the infinitesimal to act in a certain way, but the infinitesimal, because it has got infinitesimal independence, it can reject it also. It can accept it or it can reject it. That we have got. That individuality, that inde . . .
(break) ". . . that all other occupations, you please surrender unto Me. You just try to follow Me. Then I take charge of you so that there will be no reaction of your work. And do not hesitate." Mā śucaḥ. This very word. Mā śucaḥ means "Do not hesitate. Do accept it. Do accept." That is the clear declaration of the Lord. You see? This is not for Arjuna only, but every one of us, because we are all in the Arjuna's position. Arjuna is a living entity, individual living entity. So we are also, every one of us, a living entity. And the supreme entity—nityo nityānām. In the Vedic literature you'll find this hymn, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13), description of the Supreme.
The Supreme is nityaḥ nityānām. Nityānām means . . . nitya means eternal. So we are all eternal. That we have already discussed. We are soul, spirit soul. We are eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20).
We do not die after the annihilation of this body. We simply change the body just like we change our dress. But we are eternal. But because we are under the spell of this material energy, we do not take seriously that, "Why I shall agree to change my body life after life?" We have taken it as usual. This is our foolishness. We have got our eternal life, and in eternal life we have got immense measure of freedom, immense measure of power, almost equal to God. But we do not make any research in that part of our life. We are simply satisfied the . . . to have a little more of the necessities of our this present material life.
Suppose I have got one . . . one hundred millions of dollars. I think, "If I get ten thousand millions of daughters . . . dollars, then I shall be happy." This is our foolishness. You cannot be happy with any millions of dollars, because you are not matter; you are spirit. You think like that, that "I shall be happy." No. Just like . . . I'll give you one example: A diseased man, a suffering man, suppose he has got severe headache. Now, he sometimes thinks, "Oh, I am suffering. If this, instead of headache, if there would have been some other pain in the hand or feet, then I would have been glad." It is like that. Our thoughts are like that. We don't want to get rid of the pains.