10 Krsna Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System
people should be trained as brahmanas, men of knowledge.
Those who are intelligent enough in the society should be
picked and trained in higher philosophical science. And those
who are less intelligent than the brahmanas should be given
military training. We require everything in society—not only
military men. How can everyone be a military man? Because
they are sending sidras, ordinary workers, to Vietnam, these
are unnecessarily being killed. Any country which is very proud
of scientific advancement, and yet does not know how to
organize its society, is a fool’s society.

In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says that there are four divisions
of society, brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and siidra. That is nat-
ural. Some are inclined toward spiritual advancement, and these
are the brahmanas. Now we are training boys who are spiritually
inclined, and they are unnecessarily being forced into military
service. The foolish have no knowledge that some boy is being
trained up in higher science. Why should he be destroyed when
he is being perfected? The intellectual persons, those boys who
have brahminica] qualifications, are being restrained in brahm-
acarya student life: they don’t take to meat-eating, they don’t
take part in intoxication, they don’t take part in gambling,
they don’t take part in illicit sex. They are being trained as
complete brahmanas, the highest intellectuals, the most purified
persons in society. If there is one brahmana in a whole family,
then the whole family—the whole society—becomes sanctified.
But today they have no knowledge of how to train a brahmana,
or how to train a kgsatriya. In the other fields of action, in the
work of siidras and vaisyas there is nice training. If anyone
wants to be a businessman, there are colleges or technological
schools. That’s very nice. But why should everyone be dragged
into technology? Just as in your body: for proper maintenance
we require the head, the arms, the belly and the legs. All these
parts of the body are required. You cannot say, ““We do not
require the head.” That is nonsense—we require everything.
