only possible for brahman & ksatriya

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So everything should be learned from the standard Vedic literature, and society and other things, economic development, everything. So that is here in the Bhagavad-gita. All problems, whatever you want, you consult Bhagavad-gita-you'll have perfect answer. That is called Vedic literature. Perfect, without any flaw, you'll get. But to understand Vedic literature one has to become a brahmana or a ksatriya. Even in vaisya stage or sūdra stage no possible, not possible. Vaisya stage, little, but in brahmana stage and ksatriya stage people are intelligent. Therefore Bhagavad-gita is said, Krsna begins in the Fourth Chapter, imam rajarsayo viduḥ [Bg 4.2]. (More...)

So Krsna says... Krsna did not say Bhagavad-gita to the loafer class. Krsna said rajarsi. Arjuna was a rajarsi. So there are... Because king would take responsibility. If the head man is taught very nicely everything about society, economic development and religion, if he is taught very nicely, then he can, I mean to say, introduce the ideas in the country. Therefore there was monarchy. The king would learn from the brahmanas how to rule over the citizens. That was perfect. Imam rajarsayo viduḥ. Raja and rsi. Or raja means king and rsi means saintly person. So either the rsis did know or the kings did know. Or a king who is not less than a rsi, he could know and he could rule over. That is the Vedic injunction. Imam rajarsayo viduḥ. But without being rajarsi, without being highly qualified, nobody can understand. (More...)

Therefore our Krsna consciousness movement is trying to purify the people in general to the brahmana stage. Then they'll be..., you'll be able to understand. Otherwise, na saucam napi cacaraḥ [Bg 16.7]. If he's not clean, if he has..., he does not know how to behave, it is difficult. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu is still more kind, that "Never mind whatever you are. Chant Hare Krsna and you become purified." This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement. It doesn't matter whether what you are. Chant Hare Krsna and you'll be purified. Then you'll understand everything, what is God, what you are, what is your relation. This is Krsna consciousness movement. (More...)

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