Prabhupāda: We are giving education at the present moment to become śūdras. Paricaryātmakaṁ kāryaṁ śūdra-karma svabhāva-jam (BG 18.44). To serve others. A brāhmaṇa will not serve anyone else. A kṣatriya will not serve anyone else. A vaiśya will not serve anyone else. Only the śūdras. So at the present moment, we are giving śūdra education. Everyone is taking one application: "Give me some service." "No vacancy, sir." Therefore it is said, kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ. In the Kali-yuga everyone is śūdra. And how you can have good government by the śūdras? Kṣatriya required. Just like Mahārāja Parīkṣit. He was touring. As soon as he saw one man is killing cow, "Who are you, rascal, killing cow in my kingdom?" Kṣatriya. Give protection, even to the cows. Prajā means one who has taken birth in that land. Why he should not be given protection? But because they are śūdras, they do not know what is the kṣatriya's duty, what is the government's duty. This is the position. Am I right or wrong? Indian man (2): . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: No, I am speaking according to our śāstras.
Indian man (2): . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: No, no. In those days the whole planet was Bhārata-varṣa. Therefore it is called Mahābhārata.
Indian man (2): . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: That was not small. That was very big. Parīkṣit Mahārāja was going on tour because he was the emperor of the whole planet.
Indian man (2): . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Now it is divided.
Indian man (2): . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: No, that was another thing. That was for . . . fight for the right cause. Not for . . . it may be politically like that, but the division was there: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra. And the last, Kṛṣṇa's compromising plan was that "After all, they are kṣatriyas, these five brothers. They cannot take the business of a vaiśya or brāhmaṇa. So give them five villages so that they may be satisfied, ruling over these . . ." "No, not even land holding the upper portion of the needle." Then there was fight. Then there was fight.
So as far as possible . . . of course, our this movement is creating brāhmaṇas. People now require a brāhmaṇa, the head. Of course, we are not manufacturing anything. Everything is there. Everything is there in the śāstra. We do not invent anything. Yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ (BG 16.23). The, we are trying to follow as far as possible, and we are teaching that, that whatever is there . . .