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