Hari-śauri: So we have to give allowances to such people. We have to give allowances?
Prabhupāda: Allowance? It is not allowance, but give him instruction. It is up to him to follow or not to follow.
Hari-śauri: But we cannot give any compromise.
Prabhupāda: No. This is the way. "But you are not able? All right, take little more time."
Hari-śauri: So, say like one point now that's coming up more and more is that these married couples, the women want a divorce or get another husband.
Prabhupāda: But we should not implicate.
Hari-śauri: So we cannot encourage divorce.
Prabhupāda: No. We do not meddle matters in that way very much. That is a sideline.
Rāmeśvara: And one thing about government that we see, at least in America, is that each time there is an election the candidates may make so many pledges, "I think I'll go this way. I'll . . ."
Prabhupāda: No, election is going on under some rules and regulations, so you can make election under Kṛṣṇa conscious government rules and regulations. That can be done. Legislative assembly, the senators, they must be all first-class brāhmaṇas. Otherwise he cannot be elected. This should be introduced. Unless one is following the brahminical principles, he cannot be elected. He must give up these four principles of sinful life. He should not accept any salary. Very much learned scholar in Vedic literature. Then he will be elected.
Rāmeśvara: That will happen one day.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That will guide the whole nation. The rascals, anyway, the naked and prostitute-hunter, what they can do? These third-class, fourth-class, tenth-class men are being elected. There is no happiness. There is no solution of problems. All tenth-class men. I directly challenged one gentleman that, "You are all tenth-class men." Pāpa . . . Pāpa . . .
Hari-śauri: That man in Perth. (laughs)
Prabhupāda: "There is no first-class man now governing the situation. All fourth class, fifth class, tenth class. There is no first-class man." I challenged him.
Hari-śauri: When he went out the door he said, "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better go back to my fourth-class life."