ksatriyas or vaisyas, nor should they engage themselves in the
occupations of the various other classes; rather, the brahmanas
should simply guide them in spiritual cultivation, just as the wind
carries the clouds to other places to pour water. The wind itself
does not take up the responsibility for pouring water.

The most intelligent men in society are the saints and sages
who have sacrificed everything for the service of spiritual culture.
Their duty is to travel throughout human society and inspire its
members to engage themselves in acts of spiritual culture by
sacrificing their words, money, intelligence, and life. That should
be the theme of human life in order to make it a complete
success. A society with no taste for spiritual culture is a blazing
fire, and everyone in that fire perpetually suffers the threefold
miseries. As clouds pour water on a blazing fire in the forest and
thus extinguish it, the intelligent men who work as the spiritual
masters of society pour water on the blazing fire of miseries by
disseminating spiritual knowledge and inspiring the richer section
of the society to help in the cause. Temples of worship, for
example, are constructed by the rich, and these temples are
meant to impart spiritual education to people in general. The
periodic spiritual ceremonies are held for inspiration, and not for
exploitation. If there are flaws now because of the Age of Kali,
they should be rectified but the institution must be saved.s

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