Devotees are above varnasrama.

[Guest guest]

Hrdayananda Goswami: Should devotees be formally designated in a particular

occupation?

 

Srila Prabhupada: No. Devotees are devotees. Actually, devotees are above

brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, and sudra. But, for management of material

things, we have to divide. Just like in the body there are divisions.

Krsna, He was acting as a ksatriya and in His boyhood He was acting as a

vaisya. But Krsna is neither vaisya or ksatriya or brahmana. This is the

example. When He was a cowherd boy His business was vaisya and when He was

fighting in the battlefield of Kuruksetra He was a ksatriya. He was

marrying as a ksatriya. So although He is acting sometimes as vaisya,

sometimes as ksatriya, He is neither of these. So devotee is like that. He

may act in any position but he is above all the material conceptions of

life. That is perfection.

 

------------Morning Walks 1974, Vrindavana.