10 Krṣṇa Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System
people should be trained as  brāhmaṇas , men of knowledge. Those who are intelligent enough in the society should be picked and trained in higher philosophical science. And those who are less intelligent than the  brāhmaṇas  should be given military training. We require everything in society—not only military men. How can everyone be a military man? Because they are sending  śūdras , ordinary workers, to Vietnam, these are unnecessarily being killed. Any country which is very proud of scientific advancement, and yet does not know how to organize its society, is a fool's society.
In the  Bhagavad-gītā  Krṣṇa says that there are four divisions of society,  brāhmaṇa ,  kṣatriya ,  vaiśya  and  śūdra . That is natural. Some are inclined toward spiritual advancement, and these are the  brāhmaṇas . Now we are training boys who are spiritually inclined, and they are unnecessarily being forced into military service. The foolish have no knowledge that some boy is being trained up in higher science. Why should he be destroyed when he is being perfected? The intellectual persons, those boys who have brahminical qualifications, are being restrained in  brahmacarya  student life: they don't take to meat-eating, they don't take part in intoxication, they don't take part in gambling, they don't take part in illicit sex. They are being trained as complete  brāhmaṇas , the highest intellectuals, the most purified persons in society. If there is one  brāhmaṇa  in a whole family, then the whole family—the whole society—becomes sanctified. But today they have no knowledge of how to train a  brāhmaṇa , or how to train a  kṣatriya . In the other fields of action, in the work of  śūdras  and  vaiśyas  there is nice training. If anyone wants to be a businessman, there are colleges or technological schools. That's very nice. But why should everyone be dragged into technology? Just as in your body: for proper maintenance we require the head, the arms, the belly and the legs. All these parts of the body are required. You cannot say, "We do not require the head." That is nonsense—we require everything.