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Brahmana, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras. So these four divisions are always. Now you can name in a different way - that doesn't matter - but in every society and for all time these divisions are there

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Dharma means, according to different position. Just like brāhmaṇa, the intellectual society: the kṣatriyas, the administrator society: the vaiśyas, the mercantile society: and the śūdras. Śūdras means the laborer class. So these four divisions are always. Now you can name in a different way—that doesn't matter—but in every society and for all time these divisions are there.

Kārpaṇya-doṣa means a miserly man. Miserly man. He was conscious of the fact that he was a great hero, he was a great fighter and, at the same time, the enemies were there. So his actual duty was to fight with the enemy. They were offering fight. For a kṣatriya there are some obligations. If somebody challenges that, "I want to fight with you," a kṣatriya cannot deny. If somebody challenges, "Yes, I want to bet with you, gambling," a kṣatriya cannot deny. And for that reason, the Pāṇḍavas lost their kingdom.

The other side, his cousins, offered them that, "All right, let us come to betting." So betting, the bid was they offered the kingdom. "Now, if you, if you," I mean to say: "Defeated, if you are defeated, then you lose your kingdom." So they lost their kingdom. Then the next, next offer was that, "If you are defeated, you lose your wife." So they lost their wife. And similarly, they were put, "Now this time if you are defeated, you have to go to the forest for twelve years."

So there was a great plan behind them, and the Pāṇḍavas were defeated in so many ways, and they were harassed, embarrassed, for not less than twenty years. And now they were to fight, face to face. Now he is not prepared to fight. That means he has become miserly, means he is deviating from his duty. Now . . . so he is conscious that "Practically, I am deviating from my duty." Kārpaṇya-doṣa, "This is my miserly behavior." Doṣa. Doṣa means "It is a fault on my part. I should not have deviated from this fighting, but my sentiment does not allow me to fight with my kinsmen." So here is a perplexity.

So kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ, dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ: "Not only I am miserly, but I am deviating from my duty, dharma." Dharma. Every . . . this dharma means, according to different position. Just like brāhmaṇa, the intellectual society: the kṣatriyas, the administrator society: the vaiśyas, the mercantile society: and the śūdras. Śūdras means the laborer class. So these four divisions are always. Now you can name in a different waythat doesn't matterbut in every society and for all time these divisions are there.

So according to Vedic system, this system is observed by generation. So he was a kṣatriya. Now, kṣatriya's duty was to fight with the enemy, and he was not executing that, I mean to say, injunction. Therefore, he is conscious that dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ: "Oh, I am deviating from my religion also. It is the duty of kṣatriya. No. So I am now perplexed." So yac chreyaḥ syān niścitam: "Now You should kindly, definitely, say." Now, here is a position—"I do not understand what is to be done. You kindly . . ." Yac chreyaḥ syān niścitam. Niścitam means definitely what is right. Brūhi tan me.

Now Kṛṣṇa can say: "Well, I have already saying you that you should fight, but you are not carrying out the order." So he says that śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam (BG 2.7). So he accepted that "All right, whatever arguments we have done so far, let us forget that. Now I accept You as my spiritual master, not my friend."

Now, the idea of accepting spiritual master, that is also very obligatory. You see? As soon as you accept one as the spiritual master . . . first of all, we have recorded in your . . . you have heard it, that acceptance of spiritual master must be selected, you see, after careful examination, just like one selects his bride or bridegroom after careful examination. And in India they are very careful, because the marriage of the boys and girls take place under the guidance of the parents. So the parents very carefully see.

Page Title:Brahmana, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras. So these four divisions are always. Now you can name in a different way - that doesn't matter - but in every society and for all time these divisions are there
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2023-02-27, 13:27:30
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1