Prabhupada: So dristva imam svajanam. Arjuna is a great warrior, fighter, and for a kshatriya to kill one is not very difficult task. The kshatriyas are trained up. Hunting. Hunting is allowed for the ksatriyas. Just like medical practitioners, they are trained up how to practice surgical operation on dead body. It is not possible to, of course, for a gentleman, to push knife in someones body. It is naturally very difficult thing. Rogues and thieves, they can stab. So as the doctors, medical men, surgeons are trained up to operate their knife on the dead body to see where are the nerves, similarly, kshatriyas are also allowed for being trained how to kill. Kshatriya means... Kshat. Kshat means injury. And tra means trayate, saves. A kshatriya has to save the citizens from being injured by others. He is called kshatriya. Brahmana means one who knows brahma, the supreme. So brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya, shudra. These divisions are there according to quality. Guna-karma-vibhagasah. By guna. Guna means quality. And karma means actual operation of the guna. So Arjuna was a kshatriya, trained up by Dronacharya how to kill. This is the... Nonviolence is not the business of the kshatriya. That is cowardice. They are taught how to become violent. Otherwise, they cannot rule over. Formerly the judgement was given by the king, immediately finished. Not go to the court and wait for the judgement for ten years. In the meantime everything is finished. Not like that. Anything, there was regularly, the king used to sit in his assembly, and all the criminals, culprits, they were judged by the king himself. Sometimes the king had to kill personally with the sword. Even in European countries, the royal orders were trained up. Nowadays it is constitutional, democratic government. The king has no power. But this is not good for the people. The democracy is a farce. At least, I do not like it. Because so many rascals, simply by getting votes, go to the government, and what do they know how to rule over? Therefore, at the present moment, all over the world there is no good government. There is no good government. The America was considered to have very good government. Now we can see the behavior of Mr. Nixon. It is not possible. Formerly the kshatriyas, they were trained up how to govern. They were trained up by military men, just like Dronacharya trained Arjuna, Duryodhana. All the royal princes were trained up how to kill. Not only killing, also, according to shastra, how to rule over. The kings business is to see that everyone in the country, they are properly employed and engaged in his own business. That is kings business. There was no question of unemployment. This is governments first business. Because if a person is unemployed, then the devils workshop. Devils, work... If he hasnt got to do anything... That is being done now. Rich mans son, he hasnt got to do anything, so his brain is devils workshop. They are manufacturing so many isms. But everyone should be engaged. This is governments first business to see. A brahmana is engaged as a brahmana, a kshatriya is engaged as kshatriya.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:24:12 +0000
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