Casteless society
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1971 Conversations and Morning Walks
Reporter: Your permission, may I ask one question? Do we offer any solution for socio-economic problems that you can...?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Provided you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, everything will be solved.
Reporter: Will it come by itself, or will it come through you?
Prabhupāda: Immediately. Immediately.
Reporter: How, sir?
Prabhupāda: Huh? That you have to take it.
Reporter: The condition is to follow the...
Prabhupāda: Just like Kṛṣṇa says, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ: [Bg. 4.13] "These four varṇas—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra—it is created by Me." But you are trying to kill it. Why? If you try to kill Kṛṣṇa's program, then how you will be happy?
Reporter: (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Huh? There is no question of preference. Kṛṣṇa's creation, it is there. You are creating (indistinct) caste, jana-saṅgaś caste. Caste is already given, in a different name. How you can make casteless? That is not possible. The whole world—"I am American, "I am Indian—this is caste, bigger caste. Yasyātma-buddhi-kuṇa. So long you will be under the concept of this body, there must be caste division. So we have to come to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there will be no caste. Just like these boys, Americans, Europeans, Africans, Canadians, they have no caste, they have no nationality. They are simply for Kṛṣṇa. That is casteless.
Reporter: So are they brāhmaṇas?
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Reporter: (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa conscious means brāhmaṇa. Brahma jānātīti brāhmaṇaḥ.
Reporter: Not by birth?
Prabhupāda: Not by birth. They are brāhmaṇas by quality. They have got sacred thread. That is also there in the śāstra. Yasya hi yad lakṣaṇaṁ syat. Varṇa has been given. Varṇa. Varṇa, we want to compare symptoms. The brāhmaṇas are this: satya, samaḥ, damaḥ, titikṣa, ārjavam, jñānam vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam [Bg. 18.42]. This is the symptom of brāhmaṇa. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. If you find these symptoms anywhere, he is a brāhmaṇa.Correspondence
1947 to 1965 Correspondence
Page Title: | Casteless society |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
Created: | 16 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=0, Let=1 |
No. of Quotes: | 3 |