SB 2-03-19 LA 1972-06-13 Doghouse or Igloo- Home Sweet Home
ANNOUNCER: The following is a class on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
2nd canto, 3rd chapter, text number 19,
given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on the 14th of June, 1972, in Los Angeles, California.
PRABHUPĀDA: So, śva; śva means dog, and viḍ: Viḍ-varāha.
There are two kinds of hogs.
One is that we see generally in towns and villages.
That is varāha.
Varāha means hogs.
And they eat stool: Viḍ-varāha.
Another: A jungle varāha.
They have got a big, what is called?
DEVOTEES: Tusk. - Yes.
That is more dangerous.
They live in the jungle.
And viḍ-varāha means they live in the village, finding out,
“Where is stool? Where is stool? Where is stool?”
śva-viḍ-varāha uṣṭra [SB 2.3.19]
Uṣṭra means camel, and khara means ass.
So, here it is a very terse remark,
that “Anyone who has never heard the glories of Gadāgraja,
the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In other words,
one who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious—does not know anything about Kṛṣṇa or God:
They are no better than these animals; especially: dog, hog, ass, camel.”
Why these four kinds of animals have been selected to compare?
That is explained.
Śva means dog.
A dog, however powerful it may be: Very strong, stout, but it…
Unless it… it has got a master, its life is very precarious.
Dog.
Just see our education at the present moment.
Very advanced education.
Many Indian students come here also to take advanced education.
But actually, if we consider: This education [is] creating dogs.
Why?
Maybe ’cause however technologist you may be,
if you don’t get a suitable service, all your education is finished.
Therefore, after education you’ll have to write application,
“My dear sir, I am such and such qualified dog.
If you’ll kindly give me some service.”
And the tail is like this.
Just imagine.
If by education he becomes independent…
Just like Vedic culture:
The Brahmin, the kṣatriya, the vaiśyas, they are independent.
The śūdras are compared with the dogs because they cannot live without a master.
Brahmin: He will not accept anyone’s service.
That is real Brahmin.
A kṣatriya will never accept anyone’s service.
Why the battle of Kurukṣetra was there?
They…
The Kurus: They took away the whole kingdom of the Pāṇḍavas.
But they were kṣatriyas.
How they will live?
Therefore, the fight was [a] necessity.
The kṣatriyas must be, must have some land to collect taxes.
That is the kṣatriya’s source of income.
The Brahmin’s source of income: paṭhana pāṭhana yajana yājana…
They must be learned scholar.
They must teach others.
They must be devotee and teach others how to become devotee.
They must take contribution and must spend for Kṛṣṇa.
This is Brahmin.
No service.
Formerly, no Brahmin—Sanātana Gosvāmī, Rūpa Gosvāmī:
They were…
They were born in high-class Brahmin family, Sārasvata Brahmin,
but because they accepted the service of Nawab Hussein Shah,
immediately they were rejected from Brahmin society.
It is by the grace of Caitanya Mahāprabhu that they again became gosvāmīs.
Otherwise, they were rejected.
No Brahmin could take service and especially service of a low-class man.
That is…
In Bhāgavata you will see especially that if a Brahmin is in difficulty,
he may accept the profession of a kṣatriya or utmost of a vaiśya,
but never take the profession of a śūdra.
What is the profession of śūdra?
Śūdra…
paricaryātmakaṁ kāryaṁ śūdra-karma śvabhāva-jam [Bg. 18.44]
One who is hankering after service: He’s śūdra.
He has no capacity to live independently.
The Brahmin—real Brahmin: He’ll starve.
He’ll die out of starvation; he’ll never accept anyone’s service.
That is Brahmin.
Uñcha-vṛtti.
He gets no income:
He will go on the field, and when the grains are taken away,
some grains fall down.
They will pick up all those grains and live on that.
Still, they will not go to anyone that “I am hungry.
Give me something.”
No.
Uñcha-vṛtti.
So, our education…
And why we’re so independent?
Because the education was very high: Vedic education.
Satisfied with Brahma realization.
brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā [Bg. 18.54]
Not very long ago: Say about 300 years ago, there was a Brahmin:
A very rigid Brahmin, in Kṛṣṇa- nagara, near our Māyāpura.
And Brahmin’s business: He was teaching.
So, the king of that place… Big means a big zamindar:
Rājā Kṛṣṇa-candra… By his name, that place is [known] as Kṛṣṇa-nagara.
So, he heard about the Brahmin— very learned Brahmin—but very poor.
So he one day came to him and asked him, “Brahmin, can I help you [in] any way?”
So he said, “No, I don’t require any help from you.”
“No, I see you are so poverty-stricken.
You have no sufficient means.”
“No, I am not poverty-stricken.
My students: They get some alms of rice.
So, my wife boils the rice, and here is a tamarind tree.
So I take some leaves and boil it, and that’s sufficient.
Why I am poverty-stricken?”
He’s satisfied—whatever is coming automatically; that’s all.
He doesn’t require any higher standard of life: Any botheration.
He is satisfied: Little rice and tamarind juice; that’s all.
So in each and every home, formerly, this independence was very much valued.
So at the modern education this independence is being killed.
People are becoming unemployed: Machine.
Machine…
High technologist means he must find out a job
where technological machines are there.
Otherwise he’ll starve, and he will have to go round,
factory to factory: “Will you give me some service?”
“No vacancy;” yes.
So we shall discuss further next… Tomorrow.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com