Varnasrama-dharma, therefore, is essential

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This is one of the last things His Divine Grace spoke before departing from

this world, as kindly pointed out by Samba Prabhu.

 

 

 

Varnasrama-dharma, therefore, is essential, for it can bring people to

sattva-guna. Tada rajas-tamo-bhavah kama-lobhadayas ca ye (SB 1.2.19).

Tamo-guna and rajo-guna increase lust and greed, which implicate a living

entity in such a way that he must exist in this material world in many, many

forms. That is very dangerous. One should therefore be brought to

sattva-guna by the establishment of varnasrama-dharma and should develop the

brahminical qualifications of being very neat and clean, rising early in the

morning and seeing mangala-aratrika, and so on. In this way, one should stay

in sattva-guna, and then one cannot be influenced by tamo-guna and

rajo-guna.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 10.13.53