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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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So brāhmaṇas, they doesn't require any . . . they will live on the contribution of the society. Because they are giving for free service, so valuable service, knowledge, so they are provided by the kṣatriyas and the vaiśyas. So they have no anxiety for earning livelihood. Things are coming. Just like we are maintained. At least, people give to me contribution. So similarly, brāhmaṇa will live at the cost of others' contribution. That is source of income.
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Brahmānanda: So this is the varṇāśrama system that you are . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Brahmānanda: This varṇāśrama college . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes. Varnāśrama means everyone should be engaged. There will be no, I mean to say . . . (indistinct)

Jagadīśa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, what exactly do the . . . should the vaiśyas cultivate the fields or the śūdras cultivate the fields?

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Jagadīśa: Is it the duty of the vaiśyas to cultivate the fields or . . .?

Prabhupāda: Actually it is the duty of the vaiśyas, but the śūdras can help everyone, the helpers. The śūdras will help the brāhmaṇas, the kṣatriyas, as well as the vaiśyas. Those who have no brain—simply they can carry out order—they are śūdras. And those who have got brain, they can act as brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya. They have got brain to take the initiative. First-class brain, they should be engaged in studying śāstras, writing books and in the worship of the Deity, lecturing enlightened people. This is brāhmaṇa. They haven't got to work as kṣatriya, as vaiśya. They are simply intellectuals. This is brāhmaṇa, with good character.

Jagadīśa: Distributing books?

Prabhupāda: Yes. And the distribution book can be done by the vaiśya, trade. It is a trade. Kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.44 (1972)|BG 18.44]]). Kṛṣi, agriculture, giving protection to cows, and distributing or trading. If you have got enough grains, you can trade, make money. If you have got enough vegetables, you can trade. That is the business of vaiśya. So vaiśya does not require any university degree or any . . . nobody requires university degree. That is a false thing. And brāhmaṇa should be very highly learned scholar. So the brāhmaṇas will give advice to the kṣatriya how to rule, and the kṣatriya will levy tax and vaiśyas will produce food. Then the society will be perfect.

Satsvarūpa: What kind of tax?

Prabhupāda: Hmm? Tax means . . . everyone must have some income for maintaining. So brāhmaṇas, they doesn't require any . . . they will live on the contribution of the society. Because they are giving for free service, so valuable service, knowledge, so they are provided by the kṣatriyas and the vaiśyas. So they have no anxiety for earning livelihood. Things are coming. Just like we are maintained. At least, people give to me contribution. So similarly, brāhmaṇa will live at the cost of others' contribution. That is source of income. Kṣatriyas, they'll levy tax. Kṣatriya is given the land. Now he divides the land. I have got, say, two thousand acres of land. So I divide to the vaiśyas, one thousand this man, one thousand this man. So on condition that, "I give you this land. You produce foodstuff or utilize any way. You give me twenty-five percent."

Brahmānanda: Twenty-five percent of the produce?

Prabhupāda: Whatever you have produced.

Brahmānanda: Not necessarily money.

Prabhupāda: No.

Brahmānanda: But the produce.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Brahmānanda: The grains or the milk or whatever.

Prabhupāda: Whatever, yes. "Give me twenty-five percent. You can utilize the land." So that is resource of the land.

Jagadīśa: How does the kṣatriya build a palace for himself or something like that?

Prabhupāda: That will be done. To keep a prestigious position, they'll have building, servant, soldiers. Otherwise how they will fear? How they'll have respect?

Jagadīśa: So the kṣatriya is the predominator of the land.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṣatriya is the owner of the land.

Jagadīśa: And he can take the stones and men and build a big, nice . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Jagadīśa: . . . palace.

Prabhupāda: The śūdras are there. Give him his eating, and some hand . . . pocket expense, hand expense, regular. If one can eat, then he has no demand. So the laborer has to be given to eat sumptuously. "Eat and work, take some pocket . . ." They will be . . . (indistinct) . . . not that you call professional laborer and you have to pay twenty-five dollars per hour. That is nuisance. They'll drink, that's all.
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