The fact is, the Garga Upaniṣad says, etad viditvā yaḥ prayāti. One who quits this body after knowing what he is, sa eva brāhmaṇa, he is brahmin. Brahmin . . . we are offering you the sacred thread. Why? Just you try to understand what is the mystery of life. That is brāhmin. Vijānataḥ. We have read in this verse, vijānataḥ. One who quits this body after knowing things as they are, he is brāhmin.
And etad aviditvā yaḥ prayāti . . . and one who quits this body without knowing the mystery of life, he's a kṛpaṇā. Kṛpaṇā means miser. Just like if you get one million dollars and you could not utilize it, simply you see that, "Oh, I have got this bank balance"—you are happy simply by seeing it—then you are kṛpaṇā. You do not know how to utilize. And one who has got one million dollars and utilizing it and making millions and millions of dollars, he is intelligent.
Similarly, this body is invaluable. One who is utilizing it for culture of spiritual knowledge, he is brāhmiṇ. That is the difference between brāhmin and kṛpaṇā. And one who is utilizing this body like cats and dogs for sense gratification, he is miser. He does not know how to utilize one million dollars. Everyone does not know.
But it is the duty of the father, duty of the state, duty of the teachers to educate from the very beginning. Bhāgavata says that one should not become a father, one should not become a mother, one should not become a teacher, one should not become a king unless they are able to elevate their dependents to this spiritual knowledge, which can save him from repeated birth and death.