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Ideal Family Life
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duties as cloth manufacturers, weavers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, brasssmiths, and so on, or else they should engage in hard labor to produce food grains.
These are the different occupational duties by which men should earn their livelihood, and in this way human society should be simple. At the present moment, however, everyone is engaged in technological advancement, which is described in  Bhagavad-gītā  as  ugra-karma —extremely severe endeavor. This  ugra-karma  is the cause of agitation within the human mind. Men are engaging in many sinful activities and becoming degraded by opening slaughterhouses, breweries and cigarette factories, as well as nightclubs and other establishments for sense enjoyment. In this way they are spoiling their lives. In all of these activities, of course, householders are involved, and therefore it is advised here, with the use of the word  api , that even though one is a householder, one should not engage himself in severe hardships. One's means of livelihood should be extremely simple. As for those who are not  gṛhasthas —the  brahmacārīs ,  vānaprasthas  and  sannyāsīs —they don't have to do anything but strive for advancement in spiritual life. This means that three fourths of the entire population should stop sense gratification and simply be engaged in the advancement of  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness. Only one fourth of the population should be  gṛhastha , and that should be according to laws of restricted sense gratification. The  gṛhasthas ,  vānaprasthas ,  brahmacārīs  and  sannyāsīs  should endeavor together with their total energy to become  Kṛṣṇa  conscious. This type of civilization is called  daiva-varṇāśrama . One of the objectives of the  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness movement is to establish this  daiva-varṇāśrama , but not to encourage so-called  varṇāśrama  without scientifically organized endeavor by human society.
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आश्वाघान्तेऽवसायिभ्यः कामान्संविभजेद् यथा।
अप्येकामात्मनो दारां नृणां स्वत्वग्रहो यतः ॥११॥
āśvāghānte 'vasāyibhyaḥ kāmān saṁvibhajed yathā apy ekām ātmano dārām nṛṇāṁ svatva-graho yataḥ