When I came to your country, I saw nice boys and girls, finely educated, belonging to respectable family, and they are taking to any kind of work—doesn't matter. So I was very much pleased.
But in India, a man born in brahmin family, and if he is—mostly they are poverty-stricken at the present moment—if he is asked that, "You can come, you take daily five rupees. You can wash the dishes," oh, he will never accept. He will starve to death, but he will not accept. You see? He will think, "Oh, I am born in a brahmin family. How can I wash your dishes?" This is false prestige. Why?
"You are not doing the activities of a brahmin. You are poverty-stricken; you are not educated. Why do you claim that you are brahmin?" But that false prestige is there, "Oh, I am brahmin!"
And society accepts also, "Oh . . ." They will hesitate. Even if he accepts that, "Yes, I shall wash your dishes," the family will not allow him. They will say: "Oh, you are coming from brahmin. How can you wash my . . .? We shall go to hell." Just see. These notions are there. Just see. So he is suffering, and he is suffering—by this false prestige, you see.