Ideal leaders create ideal societies; Krishna consciousness produces the first-class men society desperately needs.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.4 — September 8, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750908SB-VRNDAVAN [31:35 Minutes] SB-06.02.04_750908SB-VRNDAVAN Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Sixth Canto, Second Chapter, verse number four. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] yad yad ācarati śreyān itaras tat tad īhate sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate [SB 6.2.4] Prabhupāda: [Hindi, telling devotee to chant verse] [break] [02:04] yad yad ācarati śreyān itaras tat tad īhate sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate [SB 6.2.4] Very important verse.
Ideal class of men therefore needed in the society. Therefore Vedic society is divided, ideal men: the brāhmaṇas. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra. The brāhmaṇa, the saintly person, the sannyāsī, the rājarṣi, this is required.
Imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ [Bg. 4.2]. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that the Bhagavad-gītā was taught to the rājarṣi, not to the third-class men. Rājarṣi: rāja and ṛṣi at the same time. Although king, but they were saintly king, just like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the ideal king.
Bhagavān, Rāmacandra, the ideal king. Ideal king, so ideal that because some citizen criticized that "Lord Rāmacandara, King Rāmacandra, has accepted His wife who was kidnapped by Rāvaṇa," and he was a low-class man, washerman, and still, the King, Lord Rāmacandra, thought that "My citizens are criticizing Me." Immediately He separated, Lakṣmī-devi, Sītā. This is ideal king, no criticism from the citizen, even Lord Rāmacandra. This is called rājarṣi. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Mahārāja Parīkṣit...
Parīkṣit Mahārāja was going on his tour. These Pāṇḍavas, they were the emperor of the whole world. So he saw that a black man was trying to kill a cow. So immediately he took action: "Who is this man trying to kill cow?" So he chastised him, punished him.
He was going to kill him, but he saved himself, that "This is my time. I am Kali-yuga. I am the representative. So this is my business, to kill cow.
So what can I do?" Then he said that "You better get out. Otherwise I shall kill you." "So where shall I go?" "Now, out of my kingdom." "Then where is not your kingdom? The whole world is your kingdom. Where shall I go?