As long as one is attached to the so-called responsibilities of family burdens, he is always full of cares and anxieties about meeting his family expenses. The four orders of social life, as designed in the  varṇāsrama  system, are very scientific and cooperative. In student life one is taught the primary principles of the human form of life. One who enters the householder's life can execute the duties of a family man because he has already been trained for this job in the  brahmacārī āśrama . After fifty years of age the householder retires from family life and prepares for the life of  sannyāsa .
The householder is dutybound to maintain the members of all three of the other  āśramas , namely the  brahmacārīs , the  vānaprasthas , and the  sannyāsīs . Therefore, every member of society was given a chance to retire for a higher order of spiritual culture, and the householders neglected no one. The  brahmacārīs ,  vānaprasthas , and  sannyāsīs  all curtailed their necessities to the minimum, and therefore no one would begrudge maintaining them in the bare necessities of life.
In Kali-yuga, however, the entire system has gone topsy-
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