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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 21]
The word  askhalita  indicates that orders by the king could not be disobeyed by anyone in the entire world. Such orders, however, were never issued to control saintly persons or the descendants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu. The Supreme Lord is known as  acyuta , and Lord Kṛṣṇa is addressed as such by Arjuna in  Bhagavad-gītā  ( senayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me 'cyuta ).  Acyuta  refers to one who does not fall because He is never influenced by the modes of material nature. When a living entity falls down to the material world from his original position, he becomes  cyuta , which means that he forgets his relationship with  acyuta . Actually every living entity is a part and parcel or a son of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When influenced by the modes of material nature, a living entity forgets this relationship and thinks in terms of different species of life; but when he again comes to his original consciousness, he does not observe such bodily designations. This is indicated in  Bhagavad-gītā  by the words  paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ  (Bg. 5.18).
Material designations create differentiation in terms of caste, color, creed, nationality, etc. Different  gotras  or family designations are distinctions in terms of the material body, but when one comes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness he immediately becomes transcendental to all considerations of caste, creed, color and nationality.
Pṛthu Mahārāja had no control over the  brāhmaṇa-kula , which refers to the learned scholars in Vedic knowledge, nor over the Vaiṣṇavas, who are above the considerations of Vedic knowledge. It is therefore said:
arcye viṣṇau śilādhīr guruṣu nara-matir vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhir viṣṇor vā vaiṣṇavānāṁ kali-mala-mathane pāda-tīrthe 'mbu-buddhiḥ śrī-viṣṇor nāmni mantre sakala-kaluṣa-he śabda-sāmānya-buddhir viṣṇau sarveśvareśe tad-itara-sama-dhīr yasya vā nārakī saḥ
“One who thinks the Deity in the temple to be made of wood or stone, who thinks of the spiritual master in the disciplic succession as an ordinary man, who thinks the Vaiṣṇava in the  acyuta-gotra  to belong to a certain caste or creed, or who thinks of  caraṇāmṛta  or Ganges water as ordinary water, is taken to be a resident of hell.” ( Padma Purāṇa )
From the facts presented in this verse, it appears that people in general should be controlled by a king until they come to the platform of Vaiṣṇavas and  brāhmaṇas , who are not under the control of anyone.  Brāhmaṇa  refers to one who knows Brahman, or the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth, and a Vaiṣṇava is one who serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead.