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for broadcasting this knowledge of our relationship with the Lord and
leading the general mass of people to the right path. The administrative
class is meant for protecting the living beings so that they can serve this
purpose; the mercantile class is meant for producing food grains and
distributing them to the complete human society so that the whole popu-
lation is given a chance to live comfortably and discharge the duties of
human life. The mercantile class is also required to give protection to the
cows in order to get sufficient milk and milk products, which alone can
give the proper health and intelligence to maintain a civilization perfectly
meant for knowledge of the ultimate truth. And the laborer class, who
are neither intelligent nor powerful, can help by physical services to the
other higher classes and thus be benefitted by their cooperation. There-
fore the universe is a complete unit in relationship with the Lord, and
without this relationship with the Lord the whole human society is
disturbed and is without any peace and prosperity. This is confirmed in the
Vedas: brahmano ’sya mukham asid, bahit rajanyah krtah.

TEXT 38

aera: afera: Tera yratatsey arf: |
Gl ASH BAN Aes AeAA: 13

bhirlokah kalpitah padbhyam
bhuvarloko ’sya nabhitah

hrda svarloka urasa
maharloko mahatmanah

bhith—the lower planetary systems up to the stratum of the earth; lokah
—the planets; kalpitah—it is so imagined or said; padbhyam—out of the legs;
bhuvah—the upper; lokah—the planetary system; asya—of Him (the Lord’s);
nabhitah—from the navel abdomen; hrda—by the heart; svarlokah—the
planetary systems occupied by the demigods; urasa—by the chest; mahar-
lokah—the planetary system occupied by great sages and saints; mahda-
atmanah—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

The lower planetary systems, up to the limit of the earthly stratum,
