Nitāi: "Particularly taking shelter."
Prabhupāda: Yes, "Particularly." One should be willing to go back to home, back to Godhead and take shelter particularly, means his representative. Such person can be elevated. So it is not that . . . but unfortunately, in India, although Bhagavad-gītā is there, they neglect it. The so-called brahmiṇs, so-called gosvāmīs, so-called . . . they neglect this process. Just like in India, the Muhammadans, the Muhammadans who claim to be partitioned: Pakistan and Hindustan. There are number of Muhammadans, they protested that, "India is going to be independent, but we do not wish to participate with the Hindus. We must be separate." Why? Because they have got a bad experience that the Hindus did not treat them very well, did not . . . even śūdra. In South India, it was the process, so bad process, if śūdra is passing on the street, he has to cry, "I am a śūdra passing on the street. Please close your door." The brahmiṇs would close the door so that they may not even see a śūdra, then everything will be spoiled, their food grains and everything. They will close. You see. Now the result is that South India, the Communists. Communists means the so-called low-class people, śūdras and caṇḍālas, they are now in majority. They have formed a government that on principle, as soon as some brahmiṇ comes for government service, he will reject. So the brahmiṇs are now hiding themselves, that he is brahmiṇ, because he cannot get any job. (laughter) This is the position.
So this negligence, this is not Vedic culture. Because they neglected . . . these Muhammadans who came, who grown in India, they were not imported from Afghanistan or Turkey or any Muhammadan country. They were Indians. But they were not given any facility for spiritual culture. The brahmiṇs monopolized it. Although they would not do anything, they would all, degraded form. But still, they would keep these śūdras and the caṇḍālas downtrodden and ill-treated. So therefore, when Aurangzeb passed a law, Jizya tax . . . jizya tax means all the non-Muhammadans would pay a tax. So these low-class people were so neglected. They thought—it is natural—that, "Why should we pay this tax? We are not very much well treated by the Hindus. So what is the use of remain Hindu and pay the tax?" So the wholesale, this neglected class of men became Muhammadans. This is the history. Otherwise, these Muhammadan did not come from the Muhammadan country.
So in this way a community was formed, Muhammadan community, gradually. And this British government took advantage of this ill-feeling between Hindus and Muhammadans. And they wanted to rule over India. They felt that ill-feeling. There is a great history. They are very big politician. In this way, at last, Jinnah, he was bribed by the British government and all the Britishers that, "You take as much money as you like." Just like we are also sometimes alleged that, "These American boys are being bribed by the American government." Who was telling, that newspaper reporter?