Society requires the brahminical head to direct all classes toward their proper duties and spiritual understanding.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Meeting at University — October 6, 1972, Berkeley 721006ME-BERKELEY [25:34 Minutes] Meeting_721006ME-BERKELEY Co-ordinator of event: Languages and literatures Professor van Buitenen. On the left Professor Jhani, Professor Staal, Professor Goldman. Mrs. Staal, Mrs Jhani, Paṇḍita Derbhatta.
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] Paṇḍita? Co-ordinator of event: [laughs] Paṇḍita Derbhatta who is with our department this year and the Professor Judah from the Theosophical Union is also with us. We have asked the Svāmī to be with us this evening to discuss some of the social aspects of the International Society for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He has favoured us with a paper with some of his commentary on the scriptures regarding the social, political and economic effects and if you would like to make some comment about this and then we would like to discuss these matters with you.
We have the paper so we are prepared to ask you some questions. If that is all right with you after you have made your comments. [pause]
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] put it there. Pradyumna: While we prepare the small sort of quotations from the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam pertaining to Kṛṣṇa consciousness as the universal basis. As the basis of universal spiritual culture and the political, social and economic effects in Kali-yuga and its applications. And begin by ah, quoting and chanting these things from Bhagavad-gītā and then Śrīla Prabhupāda will explain in comment.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. In explaining the lifestyle of Kṛṣṇa consciousness from the Bhagavad-gītā text [4.13]. cātur, varṇyam, māyā, sṛṣṭam, guṇa, karma, vibhāgaśaḥ, tasya, kartāram, api, mām, viddhi, akartāram, avyayam. Everyone is invited to please join us in the chanting. Prabhupāda: That’s all right. So, what is the translation? cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ. Pradyumna: “According to the three modes of material nature and the work ascribed to them, the four divisions of human society were created by Me.
And, although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the non-doer, being unchangeable.” Prabhupāda: So this material world is working under three modes of material nature. Goodness, passion, and ignorance therefore in its spiritual nature there is no such qualities. Spirit soul is pure and when the spirit soul comes in contact with matter then the spirit soul becomes influenced by three kinds of material qualities. Actually we are part and parcel of God so qualitatively God and we are one. He is spirit we are also spirit but we are part and parcel, fragment.
God is full, whole and we are fragments. So the example is just like fire and the sparks of fire. The fire is also possessing burning capacity and the small sparks they have also got the burning capacity but not as big as the whole fire. This is our relationship with God. God has got creative power, we have also got creative power but we are satisfied by creating a sputnik flying in the sky and God has created unlimited number of planets that are floating in the sky.