Text 16] The Characteristics of Rsabhadeva 157

bréhmanas according to the instructions of Vedic knowledge. Those
below the brahminical qualification—administrators, merchants and
workers—should take instructions from those ideal people who are con-
sidered to be intellectuals. In this way, everyone can be elevated to the
highest transcendental position and be freed from material attachment.
The material world is described by Lord Krsna Himself as duhkhdlayam
asdsvatam, a temporary place of misery. No one can stay here, even if he
makes a compromise with misery. One has to give up this body and ac-
cept another, which may not even be a human body. As soon as one gets a
material body, he becomes deha-bhrt, or dehi. In other words, he is sub-
jected to all the material conditions. The leaders of society must be so
ideal that by following them one can be relieved from the clutches of
material existence.

TEXT 16

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yadyapi sva-viditam sakala-dharmam brahmam guhyam brahmanair
darsita-margena samadibhir updyair janatam anusasdsa.

yadyapi—although; sva-viditam—known by Him: sakala-dhar-
mam—which includes all different types of occupational duties:
brdhmam—Vedic instruction; guhyam—very confidential:
brahmanaih—by the brahmanas; darsita-margena—by the path
showed; sadma-ddibhih—sama, dama, titiksa (controlling the mind. con-
trolling the senses, practicing tolerance) and so on: upadyaih—by the
means; janatam—the people in general; anusasdsa—he ruled over.

TRANSLATION
Although Lord Rsabhadeva knew everything about confidential

Vedic knowledge, which includes information about all types of
occupational duties, He still maintained Himself as a ksatriya and
followed the instructions of the brahmanas as they related to mind
control, sense control, tolerance and so forth. Thus He ruled the
people according to the system of varnasrama-dharma, which
