VAD

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All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga! Nov. 11, 2004 Krishna Era 5232

 

Dear Prabhus,

 

About eight years ago I was visiting Ukraine. One of our ISKCON leaders

there told me that the devotees had some discussion with the Ukraine

government managers. The government persons explained that they had no faith

in communism and no faith in capitalism. They were open to other

alternatives. The devotees suggested a government based on varnasrama. The

Ukraine government leaders indicated they were interested and would consider

sponsoring a varnasrama model.

 

This is the type of opportunity that could arise. However it is doubtful

whether we, at present, would be able to actually construct the entire

system, even theoretically.

 

Consider this conversation:

 

Prabhupada: Now you act according to the quality. Don't be idle. Now at the

modern age, in every country all over the world, there is unemployment. Why

unemployment? Because people do not know how to divide the population

according to guna and karma. One is qualified as a sudra, and he is engaged

in the business of a ksatriya. There is problem. The people are educated as

sudras, and when they are called for recruiting for the armies, they are

afraid. The problem is very acute in America. Nobody wants to join military

department. Why they will join? They have been trained up as sudra, and why

they will be like the business of ksatriya? That is the problem. Everyone

wants to avoid. Actually, the hippy movement is started on account of this,

what is this?

Devotees: Draft.

Prabhupada: Draft, yes. Young men, they want to avoid it, and they are

forced. Therefore they take the part of madman or lunatic, in this way. This

is going on, to avoid it. So that is the problem.

People should be trained up according to quality and work. There must be

institution to train first-class men. There are first-class men,

intellectuals. They should be trained up as brahmanas. That is the system.

Second-class men, they should be trained up as ksatriyas. Third-class men,

they should be trained up as vaisyas. And fourth-class men, means below

third-class, they should be engaged as sudras, workers, and below them,

candala. That I have already explained. So nobody should be left alone.

Everyone should be engaged. That is Krsna consciousness. Everyone should be

engaged in Krsna consciousness business. Then there will be no unemployment.

First-class men, let them become scholars, philosophers, preachers,

instructors, brahminical business. (Bhagavad-gita 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4,

1974)

 

Here we see that the major concern of unemployment is caused by a lack of

varnasrama dharma institution. We would need to first understand why this is

so and then explain how varnasrama determines to which varna one belongs and

then how varnasrama trains each man to be a valuable asset to society and

thirdly how the system keeps going.

 

This would be one of the tasks of the committee for compiling a varnasrama

exposition; to address real problems and provide real alternatives supported

by sastra and varnasrama principles.

 

Your servant,

Danavir Goswami

 

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