emergency: brahmanas needed

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jaghanyo nottamam vrttim

anapadi bhajen narah

rte rajanyam apatsu

sarvesam api sarvasah

 

TRANSLATION

Except in a time of emergency, lower persons should not accept the

occupational duties of those who are higher. When there is such an

emergency, of course, everyone but the ksatriya may accept the means of

livelihood of others.

 

PURPORT

The occupational duty of a brahmana should not be accepted by persons in

lower social orders, especially vaisyas and sudras. For example, an

occupational duty of the brahmana is to teach Vedic knowledge, but unless

there is an emergency, this professional duty should not be accepted by the

ksatriyas, vaisyas or sudras. Even a ksatriya cannot accept the duties of a

brahmana unless there is an emergency, and then even if he does so he should

not accept charity from anyone else. Sometimes brahmanas protest against our

Krsna consciousness movement for creating brahmanas from Europeans, or, in

other words, from mlecchas and yavanas. This movement, however, is here

supported in Srimad-Bhagavatam. At the present moment, society is in a

chaotic condition, and everyone has given up the cultivation of spiritual

life, which is especially meant for the brahmanas. Because spiritual culture

has been stopped all over the world, there is now an emergency, and

therefore it is now time to train those who are considered lower and

condemned, so that they may become brahmanas and take up the work of

spiritual progress. The spiritual progress of human society has been

stopped, and this should be considered an emergency. Here is solid support

from Narada Muni of the movement known as Krsna consciousness.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 7.11.17