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We are training engineer, similarly, a class of men, those who are very intelligent, they should be trained up as brahmana. They should be trained up how to speak truth any circumstance. Even to the enemy he will speak truth. This requires training

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Just like we are training engineer, similarly, a class of men, those who are very intelligent, they should be trained up as brāhmaṇa. They should be trained up how to speak truth, any circumstance. Even to the enemy he will speak truth. This requires training, not that foolishly, a cats' and dogs' life. What is the value of this life?.

Reporter: Do I understand that the children in your school in Texas, that they're brought up in what you consider spiritual consciousness . . .

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.

Reporter: Will they be virtually, sort of, living outside . . .

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Outside also you can live. Simply you must know how to live. At the present moment you do not know how to live, that's all. And there is no education how to live. All of us being sent to the slaughterhouse, that's all. They do not know how to live. In the Vedic civilization you will find the first proposition is how to live. Cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ (BG 4.13). How to live . . . the first, the human society is divided into four: the brāhmaṇa, the kṣatriya, the vaiśya and the śūdra. The first-class intelligent man, they are educated as brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa means satya, śama, dama, titikṣa, ārjava, jñānaṁ, vijñānam, āstikyaṁ, brahma-karma svabhāva-jam (BG 18.42). Just like we are training engineer, similarly, a class of men, those who are very intelligent, they should be trained up as brāhmaṇa. They should be trained up how to speak truth, any circumstance. Even to the enemy he will speak truth. This requires training, not that foolishly, a cats' and dogs' life. What is the value of this life? The modern civilization, they do not know how to live. They're simply interested in eating, and that's also any nonsense eating. But according to Vedic civilization, "This eating is first class," "This eating is second class," "This eating is third class," "This eating is fourth class." So many things required to correct the mistaken way of civilization. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Reporter: And is the correct way of living merely a way of doing, actually, a sort of higher state of consciousness where you're experiencing something different to . . .

Prabhupāda: Experience, why? If we agree with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, why shall I experience differently? There is no question of.

Reporter: Not experiencing differently.

Prabhupāda: No. Just like we are teaching these boys how to live, Kṛṣṇa conscious. Then . . . (to devotees) What is our program, just explain. What is our program in the temple from the early in the morning.

Page Title:We are training engineer, similarly, a class of men, those who are very intelligent, they should be trained up as brahmana. They should be trained up how to speak truth any circumstance. Even to the enemy he will speak truth. This requires training
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-04, 08:49:21
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1