Scholar: I think it's also according to the society. First we have to learn, and after we come to the stage of sannyāsī, only then we are . . .
Prabhupāda: It is no question of sannyāsa. Sannyāsa, you take or not take, you must be in knowledge what is your next life.
Scholar: But if the . . .?
Prabhupāda: Do you mean to say we shall keep ourself in darkness about our next life? Is that your philosophy?
Scholar: Well, I think we have to start from child . . . we give a child educations, and then gṛhastha and vānaprastha . . .
Prabhupāda: That is all right, gṛhastha, vānaprastha, that is a . . . different stages.
Scholar: So if everybody is . . .
Prabhupāda: But the real education is that you have to die. You have to accept another body. What kind of body you are going to accept? If you do not know that, what is this meaning of gṛhastha and vānaprastha and sannyāsa? It is all rascal. If you do not . . . you miss the real point, then what is this meaning of this? There's no meaning. Simply by dressing in white cloth one becomes gṛhastha? And simply by dressing one, in this saffron cloth, he becomes sannyāsī? By changing dress he becomes everything? He must know that what is the aim of life. Everyone should know what is the ultimate goal of life.
Scholar: Yes.
Prabhupāda: If he does not know, if he is in the darkness for the next life, then what is the meaning of this gṛhastha and vānaprastha and this . . .?
Scholar: We believe in the stage of life, so we prepare from childhood, and after gṛhastha . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, not only we, but everyone should prepare from the childhood. This is . . . this Bhagavad-gītā is not meant for a particular class of men. It is meant for the human society. So this education should be spread all over the world to save them from pitfalls of a life of darkness. That is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We do not mean that the Bhagavad-gītā is meant for the Hindus or for the Indians or for the Indonesians. No. It is meant for everyone. They should know the science.