Making Krishna the center transforms material varieties into beautiful harmony; neglecting Krishna leaves all endeavors futile.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pradyumna: Translation: "O best of the demigods, we can see three different varieties of life, which are due to the contamination of the three modes of nature. The living entities are thus known as peaceful, restless and foolish; as happy, unhappy or in-between; or as religious, irreligious and semireligious. We can deduce that in the next life these three kinds of material nature will similarly act." Prabhupāda: yatheha deva-pravarās trai-vidhyam upalabhyate bhuteṣu guṇa-vaicitryāt tathānyatrānumīyate [SB 6.1.46] Just like, now this month of June, we have got a certain type of experience what are the natural changes, atmosphere, in this month of June. Similarly, when you are in month of December, you can foretell what will be the next month of June.
It is not difficult, because you have got experience, the atmospheric changes and situations in this month of June. Just like in Bombay there is practical calculation that by the tenth of June, the rain, rainy season will begin. Actually so happens. In different places, different types of seasonal changes.
So everything should be seen through the śāstra. Śāstra-cakṣuṣāt. This is Vedic process. In the śāstra it is said that ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthāḥ [Bg 14.18]: elevation in this material world is when a person is in the sattva-guṇa, the modes of goodness. And middle, via media, is rajo-guṇa.
Madhye tiṣṭhanti rājasāḥ. And jaghanya-guṇa-vṛtti-sthā adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ: those who are very, very low class, jaghanya-vṛtti, their behavior is very, very abominable, they go down, adho gacchanti. But our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to go above the modes of goodness. Here, either goodness or passion or ignorance, they sometimes overlap. Just like a brāhmaṇa, he is in goodness.
But this Ajāmila, he was born in a brāhmaṇa family—we have begun that history, kānyakubje dvijaḥ—he was born in a brāhmaṇa family of Kānyakubja city, historical fact. Kānyakubja is still there in India; it is now called Kanauj, near... [break] ...family. Everything was there.
But accidentally, one day he was bringing flowers and other paraphernalia for worshiping Deity for his father. On the way he saw one śūdra, fourth-class man, was embracing one śūdrāṇī. This kind of embracing, kissing, on the public street, they're never indulged in India. Especially among the high class, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya.
No. The śūdras, they also do it very carefully. But śūdras can do. Prostitution, these things are the low class.