As long as one is attached to the so-called responsibi-
lities of family burdens, he is always full of cares and
anxieties about meeting his family expenses. The four
orders of social life, as designed in the varnasrama system,
are very scientific and cooperative. In student life one is
taught the primary principles of the human form of life. One
who enters the householder’s life can execute the duties of
a family man because he has already been trained for this
job in the brahmacari asrama. After fifty years of age the
householder retires from family life and prepares for the life
of sannyasa.

The householder is dutybound to maintain the members
of all three of the other asramas, namely the brahmacaris,
the vanaprasthas, and the sannyasis. Therefore, every
member of society was given a chance to retire for a higher
order of spiritual culture, and the householders neglected no
one. The brahmacaris, vanaprasthas, and sannyasis all cur-
tailed their necessities to the minimum, and therefore no one
would begrudge maintaining them in the bare necessities of
life.

In Kali-yuga, however, the entire system has gone topsy-

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