View source for The brahmana is meant for giving good intelligence. The vaisyas are meant for maintaining the economic condition. So as the government maintains the force, military police, their business is to chastise

<div id="compilation">
<div id="facts">
{{terms|"The brahmana is meant for giving good intelligence. The vaisyas are meant for maintaining the economic condition. So as the government maintains the force, military police, their business is to chastise"}}
{{notes|}}
{{compiler|Krsnadas}}
{{complete|ALL}}
{{first|29Dec13}}
{{last|29Dec13}}
{{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=1|Con=0|Let=0}}
{{total|1}}
{{toc right}}
[[Category:Intellectual Class - Brahmana]]
[[Category:Is Meant For]]
[[Category:give]]
[[Category:Good Intelligence]]
[[Category:Mercantile Class - Vaisya]]
[[Category:Is Meant For]]
[[Category:maintain]]
[[Category:Economic Condition]]
[[Category:Government]]
[[Category:maintain]]
[[Category:Force]]
[[Category:Military]]
[[Category:Police]]
[[Category:their]]
[[Category:business]]
[[Category:Chastisement]]
</div>
<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
</div>
<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="LectureonBG29AucklandFebruary211973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="43" link="Lecture on BG 2.9 -- Auckland, February 21, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.9 -- Auckland, February 21, 1973">
<div class="heading">The brāhmaṇa is meant for giving good intelligence. The vaiśyas are meant for maintaining the economic condition. So as the government maintains the force, military police, their business is to chastise. This is required for maintenance of the whole thing. So you cannot avoid this war, fighting, when it is for good cause.
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.9 -- Auckland, February 21, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.9 -- Auckland, February 21, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: You may disagree, but what is the principle? Do you mean to say the state is wrong, the government is wrong?</p>
<p>Woman (1): (Yes)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, that is an individual opinion. But according to śāstra, we have to understand that... Suppose your dress, something unclean dress, you have got. So if somebody says that "You take out this unclean dress. Get a...," so is that very (sic:) enimating. Because after all, the soul is within the body. So if the body has become unclean, or some other reason, the body has to be changed, so that is not lack of love. Therefore we have to understand actually what we are. Am I this body or something else?</p>
<p>Woman (1): No, I quite agree that I'm spirit soul. I quite agree with that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then that's all right. So similarly, when there is duty, when..., because I have already explained that the kṣatriyas are meant for maintaining the social order. The brāhmaṇa is meant for giving good intelligence. The vaiśyas are meant for maintaining the economic condition. So as the government maintains the force, military police, their business is to chastise. This is required for maintenance of the whole thing. So you cannot avoid this war, fighting, when it is for good cause. We should not be so foolish that war can be, I mean to say, completely abolished. That is not possible. If you want to keep the social order, you must have to maintain the military strength, the police strength, and the court or the university. Everything is required. You cannot neglect one of them. Similarly... But if you are afraid of being killed—that is the medicine we are preaching—then you get out of this entanglement. You be situated in your spiritual body. There is no more question of killing. But so long you are in the material world, you have to abide by the rules and regulation of material nature. That you cannot avoid.</p>
<p>Woman (1): Well, certainly I disagree with transmigration. I mean, if you're going to come back a plant or a bee, there's not much point in trying to agree to such a thing.</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: She says she does not agree with transmigration of the soul.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You may not agree. What you are?</p>
<p>Devotee: This lady fluctuates in her mind too much and there are many other people here who would like to ask questions too. Are there any other questions?</p>
<p>Woman (2): How do you regard suicide, and would there be any exceptional circumstances that might justify it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Suicide is not justified. Suicide is not justified. It is violation of nature's law. Nature gives you a certain type of body to live in it for certain days, and suicide means you go against the laws of nature, you untimely stop the duration of life. Therefore he becomes a criminal. Suicide is criminal even in ordinary state laws. One cannot make suicide.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>