224. Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 15
prajas te bhaksayisyanti
mlecché rdjanya-ripinah
Being unpurified, neglecting to discharge human duties properly, and
being influenced by the modes of passion (rajas) and ignorance (tamas),
unclean people (mlecchas), posing as members of the government
(rajanya-rijpinah), will swallow the citizens (prajas te bhaksayisyanti).
And in still another place, Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.2.7-8) says:
evar prajabhir dustabhir
akirne ksiti-mandale
brahma-vit-ksatra-sidranam
yo bali bhavita nrpah
prajaé hi lubdhai rajanyair
nirghrnair dasyu-dharmabhih
acchinna-dara-dravina
yasyanti giri-kdnanam
Human society is naturally grouped into four divisions, as stated in
Bhagavad-gita (catur-varnyarh maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah).
But if this system is neglected and the qualities and divisions of society
are not considered, the result will be brahma-vit-ksatra-sidranam yo
bali bhavita nrpah: the so-called caste system of bréhmana, ksatriya,
vaisya and Sidra will be meaningless. As a result, whoever somehow or
other becomes powerful will be the king or president, and thus the
prajas, or citizens, will be so harassed that they will give up hearth and
home and will go to the forest (ydsyanti giri-kananam) to escape harass-
ment by government officials who have no mercy and are addicted to the
ways of plunderers. Therefore the prajds, or the people in general, must
take to the Krsna consciousness movement, the Hare Krsna movement,
which is the sound incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Kali-kdle néma-ripe krsna-avatara: Krsna, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, has now appeared as an incarnation by His holy name.
Therefore, when the prajds become Krsna conscious, they can then ex-
pect a good government and good society, a perfect life, and liberation
from the bondage of material existence.
