Kṣatriya means they used to kill, practice. Unless they practice, how they can kill? And now our president, they practice only smoking, that's all. (laughter) That's all. And when there is fight, he is in the chamber, safety chamber, and others are, the poor boys, they are called by the draft board, and go and fight. This is not Kṣatriya. These are śūdras. Kṣatriya, when there is fight, the king must come forward first. The other party's king also. The king will fight with king, and the soldiers will fight soldiers according to position. And when the king is killed, then victory is owned. It doesn't require that all the soldiers were killed. No.
So there are many . . . this is actually Vedic culture. You will find all this from Mahābhārata. Bhāgavata also, we are trying to explain as far as possible. The Brāhmin, Kṣatriya, Vaiśya, Śūdra, this is natural division. So for fighting, Kṣatriya. In India, because still there are some Kṣatriyas, there is no such draft board. The Kṣatriya class, they would come forward to be recruited by the military department. They will not go away. They will be very glad to accept military service, because in their blood the Kṣatriya spirit is there. In India there is no scarcity to find out a fighter. But when people are trained as Śūdra, how he can fight?
Therefore it is very scientific. Cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ (BG 4.13). The society must be divided. There is division already, natural. We have to simply pick up, that "This boy is Brāhmaṇa, this boy is Kṣatriya, this boy is Vaiśya and this boy is Śūdra." So they should be given separate employment. Then there will be peace. If a person is employed according to his natural tendency, he becomes successful. He becomes successful. But if you give some employment, just like to put a cart before a horse, like that, no, that will not be successful.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that . . . you can say that, "There is no need of Kṣatriya; let there be all śūdras." No. Then there will be social scandal. Everything must be there. The Brāhmin must be there, the Kṣatriya must be there, the Vaiśyas must be there and the Śūdras must be there, and the state should look that these things are observed scientifically and they are being educated in that way. That is king's business. He must see that the Kṣatriyas, those who are Kṣatriya spirited, they are being trained up as Kṣatriya; the Brāhmins are being trained up as Brāhmin.
Everything is required. Just like in your body, all the four divisions . . . just like head, that is Brāhmin; the arms, that is Kṣatriya; the belly, that is Vaiśya; and the legs, they are Śūdra. So as much as the head is required, so much the legs are also required. You cannot say, "One class will do." No. But the modern tendency is one class of men. And therefore there is confusion. There must be four classes. That is scientific.