Without qualified administrators enforcing regulative principles, Kali-yuga civilization descends into chaos and uncontrolled sense indulgence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.22 — July 12, 1974, Los Angeles 740712SB-LOS ANGELES [38:15 Minutes] SB-01.16.22_740712SB-LOS ANGELES Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] kiṁ kṣatra-bandhūn kalinopasṛṣṭān rāṣṭrāṇi vā tair avaropitāni itas tato vāśana-pāna-vāsaḥ- snāna-vyavāyonmukha-jīva-lokam [SB 1.16.22] [Prabhupāda corrects pronunciation of vyavāyonmukha] [break] [07:06] "The so-called administrators are now bewildered by the influence of this age of Kali, and thus they have put all state affairs into disorder. Are you now lamenting this disorder? Now the general populace does not follow the rules and regulations for eating, sleeping, drinking, mating, etc., and they are inclined to perform such anywhere and everywhere. Are you unhappy because of this?" Prabhupāda: kiṁ kṣatra-bandhūn kalinopasṛṣṭān rāṣṭrāṇi vā tair avaropitāni itas tato vāśana-pāna-vāsaḥ- snāna-vyavāyonmukha-jīva-lokam In this Kali-yuga everything is topsy-turvied.
The Vedic way of life... For living condition, we require to eat, we require to take bath, we require to sleep, we require to have sex also. Everything must be in regulative principle. Because human life means regulative principle.
Unfortunately, the human life has become irregulated than the animal. This aśana, pāna, vāsaḥ and snāna, and sexual intercourse, there is, at the present moment, there is no regulative principle. The Vedic principle is early in the morning one must take bathing, then worship the Deity, read Vedic literature, mantra, then offer foodstuff to the Deity, then take prasādam. Everything is regulative principle.
And it is the duty of the government to see that these regulative principles are being observed by the citizens. This is government. The Vedic system, these brāhmaṇa, the topmost class of the human society, their business is to study the Vedas, paṭhana pāṭhana yajana yājana dāna pratigraha. Ideal character, very learned.
Still in India... Now it is formality; a brāhmaṇa is called paṇḍitajī. Paṇḍita means very learned. Without being very learned scholar, one cannot become brāhmaṇa or Vaiṣṇava.
Vaiṣṇava is farther above the brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa is the preliminary qualification for becoming a Vaiṣṇava later on. So how this principle should be observed? Just like government, still they regulate. In your country there are so many regulative principles.
Just in the shop, foodstuff or fruits, they should not be too old or rotten. The inspector is there. If there is not to the standard, they are thrown away. Similarly, not only..., only these stores and shopkeepers, but even in household affairs, there should be government inspection.