Spiritual mastery comes through sense control, beginning with the tongue, not through political systems or hereditary status.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — October 6, 1972, Berkeley 721006R1-BERKELEY [42:35 Minutes] Conv_721006R1-BERKELEY Prabhupāda: [indistinct] then why you are so much proud of seeing? Therefore Vedānta-sūtra says, śāstra-cakṣuṣā we have to see through perfect book of knowledge. Not this eyes… So our proposition is that Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead the knowledge He has given us is perfect and if we follow this perfect knowledge then everything will be perfect. That is our position.
Guest: Svāmī I have a question. You said that quoting the scriptures that in this world all governments are evil.
Guest: You said quoting the scriptures that in this world all men being like śūdras all governments are evil. Are some governments worse than others? Is the communism.
Prabhupāda: No all governments even communism. What is that? It’s says the same.
Prabhupāda: Voting, voting, so some fools are voting, so what is the value? The process is voting but who is voting? All rascals and fools. That’s all.
Guest: But some parties like the Jana Sangh.
Prabhupāda: They may say, everyone will say, “my party is very perfect,” but we don’t accept. Everyone can say, everyone will say that, “I am perfect.” But we have got a test because at the present age the politicians are selected by votes. The public is fool and rascals so what they will select? So therefore either communism or this capitalism, or this ism or that ism it simply requires the names of… the same thing that’s all. Vedic culture plan is a King, the executive head should be the representative of God.