Srila Prabhupada:
They live in the jungle.
And viò-varäha means they live in the forest, finding out "Where is stool?
Where is stool? Where is stool?" Çva-viò-varäha uñöra. Uñöra means camel,
and khara means ass. So here it is a very terse remark, that "Anyone who
has never heard the glories of Gadägraja, the Supreme Personality of Godhead—in
other words, one who is not Kåñëa conscious, does not know anything about
Kåñëa, or God—they are no better than these animals, especially: dog, hog, ass,
camel."
Why these four kinds of
animals have been selected to compare? That is explained. Çva means dog. A dog,
however powerful it may be, very strong, stout, but it, unless it has got a
master, its life is very precarious. Dog. Just see our education at the present
moment, very advanced education. Many Indian students come here also to take
advanced education. But actually, if we consider, this education creating dogs.
Why? Now, because however technologist you may be, if you don't get a suitable
service, all your education is finished.
Therefore, after education
you'll have to write application, "My dear sir, I am such-and-such
qualified dog. [laughter] If you'll kindly give me some service." And the
tail is like this. [laughter] You see? Just imagine. If by education he becomes
independent... Just like Vedic culture. The brähmaëas, the kñatriya, the
vaiçyas, they are independent. The çüdras are compared with the dogs, because
they cannot live without a master. Brähmaëa, he will not accept anyone's
service. That is real brähmaëa. A kñatriya will never accept anyone's service.
Why the Battle of
Kurukñetra was there? The Kurus, they took away the whole kingdom of the
Päëòavas. But they were kñatriyas; how they will live? Therefore the fight was
necessity. The kñatriyas must be..., must have some land to collect taxes. That
is the kñatriyas' source of income. The brähmaëas' source of income, paöhana
päöhana yajana yäjana... They must be learned scholar, they must teach others,
they must be devotee and teach others how to become devotee. They must take
contribution and must spend for Kåñëa. This is brähmaëa. No service.
Formerly, no brähmaëa...
Sanätana Gosvämé, Rüpa Gosvämé, they were born in high-class brähmaëa family,
Särasvata brähmaëa, but because they accepted the service of Nawab Hussain
Shah, immediately they were rejected from brähmaëa society. It is by the grace
of Caitanya Mahäprabhu that they again became gosvämés. Otherwise, they were
rejected. No brähmaëa could take service, and especially service of a low-class
man. That is... In Bhägavata you will see especially that if a brähmaëa is in
difficulty, he may accept the profession of a kñatriya or utmost of a vaiçya,
but never take the profession of a çüdra.
What is the profession of
çüdra? Çüdra means paricaryätmakaà käryaà çüdra-karma çvabhäva-jam [Bg. 18.44].
One who is hankering after service, he is çüdra. He has no capacity to live
independently. The brähmaëa, real brähmaëa, he will starve; he will die out of
starvation, he will never accept anyone's service. That is brähmaëa.
Uïcha-våtti. If he has no income, he will go on the field, and when the grains
are taken away, some grains fall down. They will pick up all those grains and
live on that. Still, they will not go to anyone that "I am hungry. Give me
something." No. Uïcha-våtti.
So our education... And
why we were so independent? Because the education was very high, Vedic
education: satisfied with Brahman realization, brahmä-bhütaù prasannätmä [Bg.
18.54]. Not very long ago, say about three hundred years ago, there was a
brähmaëa, a very rigid brähmaëa, in Kåñëa-nagara, near our Mäyäpur. And
brähmaëa's business, he was teaching. So the king of that place, means a big
zamindar, Räjä Kåñëa-candra—by his name, that place is Kåñëa-nagara—so he heard
about the brähmaëa, very learned brähmaëa, but very poor. So he one day came to
him and asked him, "Brähmaëa, can I help you any way?"
So he said, "No, I
don't require any help from you." "No, I see you are so
poverty-stricken. You have no sufficient means." "No, I am not
poverty-stricken. My students, they get some alms of rice. So my wife boils the
rice, and here is a tamarind tree, so I take some leaves and boil it, and
that's sufficient. Why I am poverty-stricken?" He's satisfied, whatever is
coming automatically. That's all. He doesn't require any higher standard of
life, any botheration. He is satisfied, little rice and tamarind juice. That's
all. So in each and every home, formerly, this independence was very much
valued.
So at the modern education
this independence is being killed. People are becoming unemployed, machine.
Machine... High technologist means he must find out a job where technological
machines are there. Otherwise he will starve, and he will have to go round,
factory to factory: "Will you give me some service?" "No
vacancy." Yes.
So we shall discuss
further next, tomorrow.
