Text 11] Ideal Family Life 157

duties as cloth manufacturers, weavers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, brass-
smiths, and so on, or else they should engage in hard labor to produce
food grains.

These are the different occupational duties by which men should earn
their livelihood, and in this way human society should be simple. At the
present moment, however, everyone is engaged in technological ad-
vancement, which is described in Bhagavad-gita as ugra-karma—ex-
tremely severe endeavor. This ugra-karma is the cause of agitation
within the human mind. Men are engaging in many sinful activities and
becoming degraded by opening slaughterhouses, breweries and cigarette
factories, as well as nightclubs and other establishments for sense enjoy-
ment. In this way they are spoiling their lives. In all of these activities, of
course, householders are involved, and therefore it is advised here, with
the use of the word api, that even though one is a householder, one
should not engage himself in severe hardships. One’s means of livelihood
should be extremely simple. As for those who are not grhasthas—the
brahmacaris, vanaprasthas and sannyasis—they don’t have to do any-
thing but strive for advancement in spiritual life. This means that three
fourths of the entire population should stop sense gratification and
simply be engaged in the advancement of Krsna consciousness. Only one
fourth of the population should be grhastha, and that should be accord-
ing to laws of restricted sense gratification. The grhasthas, vanaprasthas,
brahmacaris and sannyasis should endeavor together with their total en-
ergy to become Krsna conscious. This type of civilization is called daiva-
varndsrama. One of the objectives of the Krsna consciousness movement
is to establish this daiva-varndsrama, but not to encourage so-called
varndsrama without scientifically organized endeavor by human society.

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ATTA: BAAS TAT |
HIRATA Tt TM AA TA: 1122
asvaghante ’vasdyibhyah
kaman sarnvibhajed yatha
apy ekadm atmano dara
nrnam svatva-graho yatah
