Need For Brāhmaṇas

It is the Vedic ideal that everyone is trained according to his particular qualities and inclinations. It is necessary in every society that there especially be guides, qualified men whose work is not to put bricks together or anything else, but to simply guide with real intelligence, while the others do work according to their desires. Where there is such guidance, working becomes happy. Krsna is the author of the orders, and thus the existence of a guiding class is eternal and natural-but training is needed. In the democratic society, education makes no provision to train brahmanas for the role of guides. Although the need for such brahmanas is clear, there is no educational institution to train proper brahmanas.

The present Society for Krishna Consciousness is unique in supplying training for boys who are spiritually inclined. Under a bona fide spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, they are being trained in a higher science. Those intellectual persons who have the brahminical qualifications are being restrained as students-they don't eat meat or take part in intoxication, gambling or illicit sex life. In this way they are becoming an intellectual, purified class. It is said that a true brahmana can sanctify all society. In the conception of the four orders as parts situated on the universal form of the Supreme Lord, the brahmanas are said to be the head, the ksatriyas the arms, the vaisyas the waist and the sūdras the legs. Just as in our own body, for proper maintenance we require all parts; we cannot say that we do not need the head. We need everything. If there is a body without a head, it is a dead body. Similarly, if there is not a brahmana or intellectual, spiritual part in the society, it is a dead society. If someone is working to understand the Supreme Lord, he is a brahmana. Why should he be called for military action? The arm of the body is needed also. Some military arrangement should be there-but not the brahmana. Where there is no arrangement for protection of brahmanas, that society is headless and brainless-dead. And there is no peace in such a society.