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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div class="heading">The whole human society is suffering for want of good brain. (break) ...created a nonsense democracy. A carpenter is called to fight? A cow slaughterer is called to preside over the meeting? What is this? One must be fit for the business. If you want to make one king, he must be just like royal, ideas, always thinking of the welfare of the citizens.
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This is Vedic civilization. A section of people, they are engaged in different activities. Not that a man is working as a carpenter and he's called, "Come on. You have to go to Vietnam to fight." This is not very scientific. He has been trained up as a carpenter, and now he's called to fight. That is not perfect division of . . . the fighting is required, but there must be a class fully trained up for fighting. That is ''kṣatriya''. There must be a class of men simply for cultivation of spiritual knowledge. There must be a class fully for business, cow protection, agriculture. That is also required. Nothing is neglected. Just like in our body there are four parts: the mouth, the arms, the belly and the legs. So everything is required for proper upkeep of the body. Not that you ask the mouth to walk or ask the leg to eat. How it is that?

The modern civilization is defective. They do not know how to maintain society. There is therefore no peace. Especially there is want of brain. Crazy. Just like throughout the whole body, the head is the most important part of the body. If you cut your hands, you can live, but if you cut your head, you cannot live. Then whole thing is gone. Similarly, at the present moment the society is headless, a dead body, or head cracked, crazy. There is head, nonsense head. Nonsense head. What is the use of nonsense head? Therefore there is a great necessity of creating a class who will act as brain and head. That is Kṛṣṇa conscious movement.

Devotees: ''Jaya''. All glories to Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: The whole human society is suffering for want of good brain . . . (break) . . . created a nonsense democracy. A carpenter is called to fight? A cow slaughterer is called to preside over the meeting? What is this? One must be fit for the business. If you want to make one king, he must be just like royal, ideas, always thinking of the welfare of the citizens. Just like Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja: the whole business was how the people will be happy.

When Parīkṣit Mahārāja was born, the child . . . it is the Vedic system as soon as a child is born, immediately expert ''brahmins'', astrologers, are called. Automatically, they . . . that is called ''jāta-kriyā''. There is a function. There are ten kinds of function. From the point of begetting a child up to the point of death, there are ''saṁskāras'', or reformatory process. By that process a human being is made of perfect. That is called ''daśa-vidha-saṁskāra'', ten kinds of processes.

This ''upanayana'', this initiation, offering the sacred thread, that is also out of those ten processes. The beginning of the process is called ''garbhādhāna'', begetting a child. It is not sex enjoyment; it is a process by which you produce nice child. If you produce nice children, then the world is peaceful. But if you produce cats and dogs, how can you expect peace and prosperity? Therefore that is a process, ''garbhādhāna-saṁskāra''. In this way the Vedic system is the perfect process for creating civilized human being.</p>
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