The present state of Hindu society is so fallen because a Brahmin, in spite of his kadācāra, he claims to become a Brahmin. Do you follow? The śāstra says that as soon as you give up your good habits, the behavior of a Brahmin . . . the behavior or . . . just like it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, satya-śama-dama-titikṣa-ārjavam, jñānaṁ vijñānaṁ āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam (BG 18.42).
So we have to select a Brahmin by the symptoms of his life, not that because he is born of a Brahmin family he remains a Brahmin. No. He must continue the brahminical qualification; otherwise he is not a . . . naṣṭa-sadācāra. He is lost. Sadācāra must be continued. This is the conclusion of the Bhāgavata. Unfortunately, ot only Brahmins—kṣatriyas or śūdras, they are practically . . . they have lost all sadācāra. Still, they are claiming that "I am born in higher family." Naṣṭa-sadācāra dāsyāḥ sam . . .
And why he was lost of his good behavior? Dāsyāḥ saṁsarga-duṣitaḥ: because he was contaminated by that illicit sex life. And at the present moment a gentleman keeps woman and goes there, and still, he passes on as Brahmin. He does not know that he has fallen down. Isi liye . . . (That's why) . . . for this reason the present Hindu society is so degraded.
- bandy-akṣaiḥ kaiṭavaiś cauryair
- garhitāṁ vṛttim āsthitaḥ
- bibhrat kuṭumbam aśucir
- yātayām āsa dehinaḥ
- (SB 6.1.22)
Now his profession was . . . when a man falls down, then he lives by this profession. What are these? Bandy-akṣaiḥ: gambling, cheating and stealing. All these abominable activities they adopt. And he does not think that, "I am doing something bad because I have no other means to maintain my family." He gives the reason that, "What can I do? I have to maintain my family, so somehow or other I must get money."