Our situation are differently calculated. Not that every one of us is situated on the same platform. And the material platform, we are situated in three different positions: sattva-raja-tama. Sattva means goodness, raja means passion and tama means ignorance or darkness. So, so long we are in the material platform, the highest positional situation is in the modes of goodness.
So here it is stated that all these demigods, they are in the modes of goodness. Brahma jānāti iti brāhmaṇa. Modes of goodness means those who are brahmins. And who are brahmins? Brahma jānāti: one who knows what is Brahman, or the Absolute Truth, he is called brahmin. And he is situated in the modes of goodness. The less intelligent, that means those who are less aware of the Absolute Truth, according to the less awareness, the position is different.
The first-class position is one who is aware of the Absolute Truth, he is in the goodness. Less than . . . less awareness is the kṣatriya, or in the modes of passion. Less awareness is the vaiśyas, the mercantile class of people. They are in the third position. And the śūdra, they are in the fourth position, in the darkness, unawareness.
And again, the degree of unawareness makes more and more abominable condition of life, just like animal life. So here Prahlāda Mahārāja says that, "You have nothing to be disturbed by these people, because they are in the modes of goodness." Therefore if we can produce population in the modes of goodness, there will be no problem in this material world even.
Just like in the Satya-yuga, they are all brahmins, in the modes of goodness, so there was no trouble. And again, Tretā-yuga, seventy-five percent modes of goodness. In the Dvāpara-yuga, fifty percent, and the Kali-yuga, seventy-five percent calculated to be in the modes of ignorance. Therefore we are feeling so much disturbances in the social condition, in the political condition.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja assures that brahmādayo sarve hy amī vidhi-karāḥ (SB 7.9.13). Vidhi-karāḥ means administrators. The demigods are different administrators appointed on behalf of the Supreme Lord. Just like the sun-god, he is also called god, because he is godly. So he is supplying us heat and light. Similarly, there is Indra; he is supplying us water. Candra is supplying us moonlight. Varuna supplying us air. So there are different controllers. Don't think that there is no controller. There is controller.
In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram (BG 9.10): "All these natural rules and regulations, they are being conducted under My superintendence." It is foolishness to understand that there is no director or no supreme controller or superintendent in these affairs. This is scanty explanation that, "Nature is doing." No. Nature cannot do. Nature is dull. Nothing can move without spiritual touch. Matter is dull. A stone, however great it may be, without touch of a spiritual individual soul, the stone cannot move.