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The Perfect Society: Four Social Classes
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tiger kills a man, this is not sinful but if a man kills another man, this is considered sinful, and the killer is hanged. What is a daily affair among the animals is a sinful act in human society. Thus according to the symptoms of higher and lower sections of society, there are different varieties of occupational duties. According to the experts in Vedic knowledge, these duties are prescribed in terms of the age concerned.
TEXT 32
वृत्त्या स्वभावकृतया वर्तमानः स्वकर्मकृत् ।
हित्वा स्वभावजं कर्म शनैर्निर्गुणतामियात् ॥३२॥
vṛttyā sva-bhāva-kṛtayā vartamānaḥ sva-karma-kṛt hitvā sva-bhāva-jam karma śanair nirguṇatām iyāt
vṛttyā —with the profession;  sva-bhāva-kṛtayā —performed according to one's modes of material nature;  vartamānaḥ —existing;  sva-karma-kṛt —executing his own work;  hitvā —giving up;  sva-bhāva-jam —born from one's own modes of nature;  karma —activities;  śanaiḥ —gradually;  nirguṇatām —transcendental position;  iyāt —may attain.
TRANSLATION
If one acts in his profession according to his position in the modes of nature and gradually gives up these activities, he attains the  niṣkāma  stage.
PURPORT
If one gradually gives up his hereditary customs and duties and tries to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his natural position, he is gradually able to become free from these activities, and he attains the stage of  niṣkāma , freedom from material desires.
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उप्यमानं मुहुः क्षेत्रं स्वयं निर्वीर्यतामियात् ।
न कल्पते पुनः सूत्यै उप्तं बीजं च नश्यति ॥३३॥