Especially in India, this ideal life of human society should be inaugurated. We should not imitate the Western people, who are now dwindling

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"especially in India, this ideal life of human society should be inaugurated. We should not imitate the Western people, who are now dwindling"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Especially in India, this ideal life of human society should be inaugurated. We should not imitate the Western people, who are now dwindling. Their material civilization is no longer giving them happiness. That is a fact. They are seeking after athātho brahma-jijñāsā. They are now seeking after inquiring about Brahman. Therefore you find so many Europeans and Americans, they have taken to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement because they are now inquisitive—inquisitive: "What is next?" Why . . . why we are following them, how to make machine and skyscraper building? They are coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

750410 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Hyderabad

In the human society there must be four divisions—the brāhmaṇa, the kṣatriya, the vaiśya and the śūdra—according to the quality. The most intelligent class of men, they should become brāhmaṇas. Satya, śamaḥ, damaḥ, titikṣā, ārjavam, jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam (BG 18.42). So the next-intelligent class of men should become the administrators, and the next-intelligent class men should be the productive class, vaiśyas.

kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyaṁ

vaiśya-karma svabhāva-jam

(BG 18.44)

Everything is there. And especially in India, this ideal life of human society should be inaugurated. We should not imitate the Western people, who are now dwindling. Their material civilization is no longer giving them happiness. That is a fact. They are seeking after athātho brahma-jijñāsā. They are now seeking after inquiring about Brahman. Therefore you find so many Europeans and Americans, they have taken to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement because they are now inquisitive—inquisitive: "What is next?" Why . . . why we are following them, how to make machine and skyscraper building? They are coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

So long, long before, Ṛṣabhadeva advised, "My dear sons, this body should not be misused working whole day and night for sense gratification, because that is the business of the hogs and dogs." Here it is clearly said, kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye. Viḍ-bhujāṁ. You have seen. In our India we see viḍ-bhujāṁ. Viḍ-bhujāṁ means stool-eater, the pigs. They are seeking after stool, whole day and night, and they are eating. And after eating stool . . . the stool is very substantial food. According to chemical examination, it contains all the hypophosphites, because the essence of the foodstuff we have taken, that is stool. So anyone, if one can eat; but we can see that the hogs, they become very fatty, because it contains fat. Sometimes in the wartime, I learned that the German people are taking, extracting, fat from stool. So there is enough fat. The result is they become very much sexually inclined. And they have no distinction how to enjoy sex life. Never mind it is mother or sister or daughter, it doesn't matter. That is hog's life.

Correspondence

1974 Correspondence

The GBC must be vigilant by following the regulative principles and teach by ideal character the presidents of the centers, and the presidents by their ideal character must teach the others then automatically all members of the whole institution will be ideal to the human society. Then we can dictate to administrators or sometimes take hold of the administration. In the absence of competent leaders we may take the post. But we must be very careful in the flow of the political movement we may not forget our ideal life. For example, Parasaram was a Brahmin but when he found the ksatriyas were mismanaging he killed them twenty one times and some of them fled to European countries. This is the history.

740428 - Letter to Rupanuga written from Hyderabad

Our students who are making this political program must be fixed in one point that human society unless divided into the four classes and divisions is animal society. Among the animals there is no intelligence for self realization or how to make life successful. In human life intelligence is better than animals therefore they should know what is the aim of life and to educate human society there is the whole Vedic literature, of which the Bhagavad gita is the quintessence. The Supreme Personality of Godhead orders that there must be four division in human society, a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th class, like that, and the 1st must be ideal. If the whole society is full of rogues, thieves, drunkards, cheaters and demons, where is there question of decent government. There must be division so the lower class men may aspire to be second class men. So far we are concerned we are trying to train first class men. How much great responsibility we have to follow regulative principles, chant the beads, live with personal character etc. Regulative principles means to especially execute devotional service in terms of the revealed scriptures under the direction of the spiritual master. By fulfilling the regulative principles you come to the platform of spontaneous love for Krsna. Spontaneous love for Krsna is there already but is covered by the influence of Maya. The regulative principles are a device how to overcome the influence of maya and come to the platform of spontaneous love of Krsna. If we want to exist as first class men in society all our students must be induced to following the regulative principles. One shouldn't think artificially he has come to the spontaneous platform. That is sahaujaism.The GBC must be vigilant by following the regulative principles and teach by ideal character the presidents of the centers, and the presidents by their ideal character must teach the others then automatically all members of the whole institution will be ideal to the human society. Then we can dictate to administrators or sometimes take hold of the administration. In the absence of competent leaders we may take the post. But we must be very careful in the flow of the political movement we may not forget our ideal life. For example, Parasaram was a Brahmin but when he found the ksatriyas were mismanaging he killed them twenty one times and some of them fled to European countries. This is the history. So far we are concerned we shall keep ourselves in ideal brahminical position and if need be if no kshatriya or Vaisya is here we can take up their work as emergency. Our business is to create ideal kshatriyas and vaisyas but beyond that our real business is to keep ourselves as ideal Brahmins. If we are not ideal we cannot create others as ideal. Training is required for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes of social constitution. Persons who are not fit for being advanced by training are sudras or less than that. At the present moment in the world state, there are sudras and less than that. There are no ideal brahmanas or kshatriyas. But these four divisions are imperative. So our business is to keep fit as brahmanas and to train others to be ideal kshatriyas and vaisyas for advancing the whole society. As Krsna says in the Srimad-Bhagavatam: