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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Actually, the human society must be divided into four parts, four divisions: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra. Just like in our body there is division—the head department, the arms department, the belly department and the leg department. You cannot say: "Let there be only leg department. There is no use of head and arms and belly." Will that go on nicely? If your body, you cut off all other parts and simply keep the legs, will that be very nice proposal? Leg is required. But if you keep the body only by the legs, then this kind of body is dead body. Any part of the body, especially the head. If you cut off the head, then the body is altogether dead. You can cut off the arms, you can cut off the legs, but it is very difficult to cut off the belly also. Then it will be dead.
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[[Vanisource:730901 - Lecture BG 02.31 - London|730901 - Lecture BG 02.31 - London]]
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A small industry, there are so many motor parts, so many other parts. About two hundred, three hundred items, government is ready to help a small industry. But the government does not know or the leaders do not know that to engage people in such industrial affair means to bring them to the śūdra platform. Śūdra platform. Every government is encouraging people how to become śūdra.

But actually, the human society must be divided into four parts, four divisions: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra. Just like in our body there is division—the head department, the arms department, the belly department and the leg department. You cannot say: "Let there be only leg department. There is no use of head and arms and belly." Will that go on nicely? If your body, you cut off all other parts and simply keep the legs, will that be very nice proposal? Leg is required. But if you keep the body only by the legs, then this kind of body is dead body. Any part of the body, especially the head. If you cut off the head, then the body is altogether dead. You can cut off the arms, you can cut off the legs, but it is very difficult to cut off the belly also. Then it will be dead.

So, sva-dharma. Sva-dharma means the division, kṣatriya division of the society. The brāhmaṇa division, the kṣatriya division, the vaiśya division and the śūdra division. Everything is required. It is not that śūdra is not required. Śūdra is required, but if you make propaganda simply to make people śūdras, then who will give direction? If there is no head, who will give the direction? So a kṣatriya, kṣatriya has got a very difficult task: to see. Kṣatriya means government, the governing division. So the governing division has got a very important duty, to see that everyone is following his duty: the brāhmaṇa is following his duty, a kṣatriya is following his duty, vaiśya is following the duty, and śūdra . . . that is, government's duty is . . .

Just like in India nowadays it has become a secular government. Secular government means impartial to any religious system. But the government should not be so callous that in religious principle, let people do whatever he likes. No. The government cannot do so. You can say that, "You are Hindu, you execute your own system of religion. You are Muslim; you can execute your system of religion. You are Christian; you follow your system of religion. You are Buddhist, you follow your system of religion." But the government cannot be callous that whatever they may follow or whatever they may not do, and government is neutral. No.
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