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| [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] |
| [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]] |
| | [[Category:Questions On... Scripture, Mantras]] |
| | [[Category:Questions On... Varna, Asrama]] |
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| <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> | | <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> |
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| <div class="heading">Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya. | | <div class="heading">Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with the Mayor of Evanston -- July 4, 1975, Chicago|Room Conversation with the Mayor of Evanston -- July 4, 1975, Chicago]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The first-class man does not mean that he is nicely dressed or very rich or very opulent. Generally, of course, a first-class man means good parentage, good education, good looking and nicely rich. That is the standard. But... That may be first-class position, but first-class man is different. First-class man means he is self-controlled, in the mind he is undisturbed, he is truthful, he is very clean, inside and outside, he is very simple, tolerant, full of knowledge, practical application of knowledge, and believe in God. This is first-class man. There is no mention that he is rich, he is beautiful, bodily, or he is educated. Educated, this is a result of education. Real education means that he is self controlled. Controlling the mind, controlling the senses, truthful. He will speak truth in any circumstances. Even to his enemy he will speak the truth. And clean, and very simple, tolerant. And any knowledge, he has got some, I mean to say, strength over it. Ultimate knowledge, Brahmān, he believes in that and he has... Brahma janātītī brāhmaṇaḥ, This is first-class man. So it is not expected that everyone will become first-class. but there must be a section in the society, ideal first-class. And they will be advisor to the rest. These brāhmaṇas, they will not take part in politics, but those who are politicians, administrators, they should take advice from these first-class men, how to rule, how to control, what is the ideal. So the ruling class, they are called kṣatriyas. So find out this verse, śamaḥ damaḥ...</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with the Mayor of Evanston -- July 4, 1975, Chicago|Room Conversation with the Mayor of Evanston -- July 4, 1975, Chicago]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The first-class man does not mean that he is nicely dressed or very rich or very opulent. Generally, of course, a first-class man means good parentage, good education, good looking and nicely rich. That is the standard. But... That may be first-class position, but first-class man is different. First-class man means he is self-controlled, in the mind he is undisturbed, he is truthful, he is very clean, inside and outside, he is very simple, tolerant, full of knowledge, practical application of knowledge, and believe in God. This is first-class man. There is no mention that he is rich, he is beautiful, bodily, or he is educated. Educated, this is a result of education. Real education means that he is self controlled. Controlling the mind, controlling the senses, truthful. He will speak truth in any circumstances. Even to his enemy he will speak the truth. And clean, and very simple, tolerant. And any knowledge, he has got some, I mean to say, strength over it. Ultimate knowledge, Brahmān, he believes in that and he has... Brahma janātītī brāhmaṇaḥ, This is first-class man. So it is not expected that everyone will become first-class. but there must be a section in the society, ideal first-class. And they will be advisor to the rest. These brāhmaṇas, they will not take part in politics, but those who are politicians, administrators, they should take advice from these first-class men, how to rule, how to control, what is the ideal. So the ruling class, they are called kṣatriyas. So find out this verse, śamaḥ damaḥ...</p> |
| <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You want about the kṣatriya or the brāhmaṇas?</p> | | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You want about the kṣatriya or the brāhmaṇas?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya.</p> |
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| :jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ | | :jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ |
| :brahma-karma svabhāva-jam | | :brahma-karma svabhāva-jam |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 18.42|BG 18.42]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]) |
| <p>"Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge, and religiousness—these are the qualities by which the brāhmaṇas work."</p> | | <p>"Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge, and religiousness—these are the qualities by which the brāhmaṇas work."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: This is first-class man. And the second-class man?</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: This is first-class man. And the second-class man?</p> |
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| :dānam īśvara-bhāvaṣ ca | | :dānam īśvara-bhāvaṣ ca |
| :kṣātraṁ karma svabhāva-jam | | :kṣātraṁ karma svabhāva-jam |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 18.43|BG 18.43]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 18.43 (1972)|BG 18.43]]) |
| <p>"Heroism, power, determination, resourcefulness, courage in battle, generosity, and leadership are the qualities of work for the kṣatriyas."</p> | | <p>"Heroism, power, determination, resourcefulness, courage in battle, generosity, and leadership are the qualities of work for the kṣatriyas."</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
