According to Bhagavad-gītā, as we are preaching, we are also opening centers, self-help center. In New Vrindaban, West Virginia, we have already opened a very big community center. We are going to open in California also, and we have already opened in India also, that we occupy a certain tract of land, we produce our own food, we keep our cows and take their milk, and there is no scarcity. Everything there. We don't require to go outside the land for our livelihood. So we are advising, we are making centers like that, that "Be self-sufficient. Save time for spiritual culture." That is human civilization.
This was advised some thousands of years ago by Ṛṣabhadeva. I will recite some verses that is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It is stated in the Fifth Chapter of the Fifth Canto. It is said, ṛṣabha uvāca. Ṛṣabhadeva was a . . . the emperor of this world. He was advising His sons. So He said:
- nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke
- kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye
- tato tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ
- śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam
- (SB 5.5.1)
This is the instruction of Ṛṣabhadeva to His sons. "My dear sons, this human form of body," ayaṁ deha, "this body," na, "not . . ." Na ayaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke. Everyone has got a body. Cats and dogs, they are also possessing a body, and the human being also possessing body. So what is the difference between the cats and dogs and human society? Ṛṣabhadeva says, ayaṁ deha-bhājāṁ nṛlo . . . kaṣṭān kāmān na arhati yad viḍ-bhujām. To accept too much labor for the necessities of life, kāmān . . . kāmān means the necessities of life. This life, this human form of life, is not meant for that. It is meant for viḍ-bhujām, the hogs and dogs. They are . . . the hog is whole day working to find out, "Where is stool? Where is stool?" The human life should not be like that. Human life should be very peaceful and prosperous and save time for spiritual culture. That is stated here. Tapo divyam (SB 5.5.1), for tapasya, tapasya, voluntarily accepting renouncement. This is human life.
That is our Vedic principle, compulsory sannyāsa. There are varṇāśrama-dharma. So student life, brahmacārī; then married life, gṛhastha; then vānaprastha; then sannyāsa. That is tapasya. The brahmacārī is also trained up for austerity and penances. That is brahmacārī. The gṛhastha also . . . because from brahmacārī life, they go to gṛhastha life, they are trained up in tapasya. Then again, at the age of fiftieth year, they give up the family life, they take vānaprastha. Only the husband and wife go out of home and travels all over the holy places. Then, when one is little trained up, he sends back his wife to the care of his grown-up children, and he takes sannyāsa. This is varṇāśrama-dharma. The so-called Hindu dharma, that is a gift of the Muhammadans. We don't find the word "Hindu" in any Vedic scripture. This "Hindu" word has come from the Muhammadan countries. They used to say the people of this part of the world, means across the river Indus, they call "Hindas" or "Hindus." So actually, Hindu . . . that is not Hindu dharma. Our . . . from the Vedic literature, we understand the varṇāśrama-dharma. Varṇāśrama: four varṇas and four āśramas. Varnāśramacaravata. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, you'll find this word. In the Bhagavad-gītā, you'll find. In the Bhāgavata you'll find. So really Indian civilization or Aryan civilization, Vedic civlization, means varṇāśrama-dharma.