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kṣatriyas ; there are only so-called workers and a flourishing mercantile class who have no goal in life.
According to Vedic civilization, the ultimate perfection of life is to take  sannyāsa , but at the present moment people do not know why  sannyāsa  is accepted. Because of misunderstanding, they think that one accepts  sannyāsa  to escape social responsibilities. But one does not accept  sannyāsa  to escape from responsibility to society. Generally one accepts  sannyāsa  at the fourth stage of spiritual life. One begins as a  brahmacārī  then becomes a  gṛhastha , a  vānaprastha  and finally a  sannyāsī  to take advantage of the duration of one's life by engaging oneself fully in self-realization.  Sannyāsa  does not mean begging from door to door to accumulate money for sense gratification. However, because in Kali-yuga people are more or less prone to sense gratification, immature  sannyāsa  is not recommended. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī writes in his  Nectar of Instruction  (2):
atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ jana-saṅgaś ca laulyaṁ ca ṣaḍbhir bhaktir vinaśyati
"One's devotional service is spoiled when he becomes too entangled in the following six activities: (1) eating more than necessary or collecting more funds than required; (2) overendeavoring for mundane things that are very difficult to obtain; (3) talking unnecessarily about mundane subject matters; (4) practicing the scriptural rules and regulations only for the sake of following them and not for the sake of spiritual advancement, or rejecting the rules and regulations of the scriptures and working independently or whimsically; (5) associating with worldly-minded persons who are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and (6) being greedy for mundane achievements." A  sannyāsī  should have an institution meant to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness; he need not accumulate money for himself. We recommend that as soon as money accumulates in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, fifty per cent of it should be invested in printing books, and fifty per cent for expenditures, especially in establishing centers all over the world. The managers of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should be extremely cautious in regard to this point. Otherwise money will be the cause of lamentation, illusion,