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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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If you have the qualities of a ksatriya and if you work as a ksatriya, then you are ksatriya. If you have the qualification of a mercantile man, businessman, and if you work as a businessman or cultivator, then you become vaisya. This is very scientific. Not that one is classified according to the birth. No. According to qualification.
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[[Vanisource:741121 - Lecture SB 03.25.21 - Bombay|741121 - Lecture SB 03.25.21 - Bombay]]
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So ''prasaṅgam ajaraṁ pāśam ātmanaḥ. Ātmā'' is the same, spirit soul. He has got the same form. But they are different dresses. They are having different dresses. Just like we are sitting so many. As human being, we are the same, but we have got different dresses. Similarly, ''ātmā'', the soul, the spirit soul, is the same. There is no difference. Therefore ''paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ''. One who knows what is the form of ''ātmā'', he sees . . . ''vidyā-vinaya brāhmaṇe gavi hastini . . . sama-darśinaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 5.18 (1972)|BG 5.18]]). He sees the animal, the cats and dogs, and a learned ''brāhmaṇa—sama-darśinaḥ. Samatā'' means not that ''brāhmaṇa'' is equal to the dog. No, not that. But he sees that ''brāhmaṇa ''is also a spirit soul, and the dog is also a spirit soul.

So this conditioned life . . . dog has got a conditioned life, I have got a conditioned life, you have got a conditioned life. We are all conditioned, under different . . . and according to the condition, we have got different bodies. ''Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa'' ([[vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]). This conditioned life, different forms of life, we have got ''daiva-netreṇa'', by superior . . . superior administration. ''Netreṇa ''means ''netṛtva'', leadership. So superior leadership. Just like Yamarāja. ''Karmaṇā'', according to my ''karma'', he offers me some body. ''Daiva-netreṇa. Jantur deha upapatti. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu'' ([[vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). ''Karma . . . Guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). ''Guṇa'' and ''karma ''. . . just like here, in the practical world, you can work as an engineer, karma, if you have got the qualification. If you have got the qualification of a shopkeeper, you cannot act as engineer. That is not possible. If you have got the qualification of a teacher, educationist, then you can become a teacher.

So the whole world is going like that, ''guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ''. So ''guṇa'' means we are, according to our position or according to our mentality, we are infecting some ''guṇa, sattva-rajas-tamo-guṇa''. So ''guṇa-karma, guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ''. Very scientific this is. You can become . . . if you acquire the qualities of a ''brāhmaṇa'', then, and if you work as a ''brāhmaṇa'', then ''guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ'', you become a ''brāhmaṇa''. If you have the qualities of a ''kṣatriya'' and if you work as a ''kṣatriya'', then you are ''kṣatriya''. If you have the qualification of a mercantile man, businessman, and if you work as a businessman or cultivator, then you become ''vaiśya''. This is very scientific. Not that one is classified according to the birth. No. According to qualification. Just like there is medical association. Medical association does not mean all the medical men in the association, they are born of the same family. No. They are born in different family. But because they have got qualification and working as medical man, they are admitted as the member of medical association or member of bar association. This is practically. Similarly, if you acquire the qualification of a ''brāhmaṇa'' and if you work as a ''brāhmaṇa'', then you are accepted as a ''brāhmaṇa''. Similarly ''kṣatriya'', similarly ''vaiśya''.
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