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<div class="heading">There are twenty kinds of dharma śāstra, so they have to be followed. That is human society. Not that to live like animal. That is human society. According to Vedic system, unless the human society comes to the institution of varṇāśrama-dharma, they are not to be accepted as human society. The system, the whole system was to gradually educate people to be elevated to the spiritual platform for understanding Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- Bombay, December 26, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- Bombay, December 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
''Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya.'' A ''brahmin'' must be truthful: ''satya sama dama titikṣa ārjava, jñānam vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma karma svabhāva'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]). So the ''brahmins'', those who are actually qualified ''brahmins, guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). Lord Kṛṣṇa said that ''cātur-varṇyaṁ māyā śṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ'': by division of quality and activities.

So everyone, ''brahmin'', must be qualified and must be engaged in his particular duties. ''Kṣatriyas'' also, they should be engaged in their particular duties. ''Vaiśyas'' and ''śūdras'' also. And it is the duty of the government that everyone is discharging his duties. That is king's business, ''rāja-daṇḍa''. If one does not observe the regulative principle, then he should not declare himself as ''brahmin, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra.''

So, just like at the present moment, the government has got inspectors to see . . . inspect the schools, whether the teachers are duly discharging their educational curriculum, similarly, formerly the king, he was ''rāja-daṇḍa-vit.'' So not only he was inspecting that everyone is discharging his professional or particular duties, but everyone has got employment. That was also the king's duty. No one should be unemployed. The ''brahmin'' should be employed, the ''kṣatriya'' should be employed, the ''vaiśya'' should be employed and the ''śūdra'' should be employed. If there is any difficulty, then it was the duty of the king to give them employment.

So since we have lost our responsible monarchical government, the four divisions of social order—means ''brahmin, kṣatriya, vaiśyas'' and ''śūdra''—they have deviated due to unemployment. The ''brahmin'' could not get sufficient engagement in their duties, ''yajana yājana paṭhana pāṭhana dāna pratigraha.'' People became neglectful, so they thought, "What is the use of calling a ''brahmin'' for ''pūjā'' part? There is no necessity. Stop it."

So naturally the ''brahmins'' were obliged to accept to the business or the occupational duties of the ''kṣatriyas'' or the ''vaiśyas'' or even ''śūdras''. What can be done? But in the ''śāstra'' it is said that a ''brahmin'', if he's in difficulty, he may accept the profession of a ''kṣatriya'' or up to ''vaiśya'', but never accept the occupation of a ''śūdra''. These are described in the ''śāstras''.

Besides that, the higher castes—the ''brahmins, kṣatriyas'' especially, and the ''vaiśyas'' also—they must observe the ''dāsa-veda saṁskāra,'' ten kinds of reformatory methods. The first method is ''garbādhāna-saṁskāra''. Before giving birth to a child, there is a ceremony which is called ''garbādhāna-saṁskāra'', and it is stated in the ''śāstras'' that if the higher castes do not perform the ''garbādhāna-saṁskāra'' and beget children like cats and dog, then he immediately comes to the position of ''śūdra''. These are the śāstric injunction.

There are twenty kinds of ''dharma śāstra'', so they have to be followed. That is human society. Not that to live like animal. That is human society. According to Vedic system, unless the human society comes to the institution of ''varṇāśrama-dharma'', they are not to be accepted as human society. The system . . . the whole system was to gradually educate people to be elevated to the spiritual platform for understanding Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That was the whole scheme. Viṣṇu . . . ''tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūrayo'', to train people to become civilized, sūrayo, means that they will observe to the ultimate goal of life, ''viṣṇu paramaṁ padam'': how to approach Lord Viṣṇu, how to approach the Vaikuṇṭha, ''paraṁ dhāma'', by spiritual progressive life. That was there.

Every human being was given chance to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is considered as human civilization. Human civilization does not mean to improve the method of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, as it is going on now. The quality or . . . the quality has been polished, but actually the human civilization has not improved, because the quality . . . Eating, sleeping, mating and defending, that is given special stress, but not to the point of, goal of life, reaching Viṣṇu, ''oṁ tad viṣṇoḥ paranaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūrayo'' (''Ṛg Veda'' 1.22.20). That we have neglected.</p>
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