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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
[[Category:Questions On... Personalities From Vedic Scripture]]
[[Category:Questions On... Bhagavad-gita]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">He was purposefully misguided so that he could put question like a misguided man.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With David Lawrence -- July 12, 1973, London|Room Conversation With David Lawrence -- July 12, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He could take. So Arjuna was fortunate to go in this body, to go to the spiritual world and see it and come back again.</p>
<p>David Lawrence: One other thing that interested me was the idea that Arjuna was in some way ...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Friend.</p>
<p>David Lawrence: ...deliberately, if you like, deliberately misguided, planned almost to be misguided in the Bhagavad-gītā. How, how is this work, like...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If he does not be... He was purposefully misguided so that he could put question like a misguided man...</p>
<p>David Lawrence: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...and the right answer may come from Kṛṣṇa. It is for our benefit. He's not misguided.</p>
<p>David Lawrence: No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But he played the part of misguided.</p>
<p>David Lawrence: Yes. What we would say and...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like a person is playing in the stage as a fool, but he may be very educated man. So... But for the dramatic expression of talks, he might play as a fool. Similarly Arjuna's position is... How...? He cannot be misguided; he's personal friend of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>David Lawrence: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He cannot be misguided.</p>
<p>David Lawrence: But it was for our benefit.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But... And nobody can talk with Kṛṣṇa also. Nobody is so qualified. So somebody who would talk with Kṛṣṇa who must be very qualified, but he's playing the part of a befooled man. Otherwise, he's not misguided. He knows everything. Yes.</p>
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