So that is the tendency, not to work hard, but live peacefully. That can be done. Everyone can do that, provided he lives in the village, he lives in the village and produces his own food, little labor, vegetable, food grains. Anyone can produce. This is human civilization. First-class men, they should cultivate knowledge to guide the human society, brahmana. Sama dama titiksa… They should learn, ideal men. Under their advice… Brahmana is considered to be the guru of other sections: ksatriya, vaisya, sudra. So anyone can live very peacefully without any hard labor.
What is this civilization? For getting foodstuff one has to go hundred miles away from home, daily passengers. And some of them are going in the foreign countries also. Recently there was news that in Africa, Uganda, that, the President Amin, he asked some very respectable English gentleman to carry his palanquin just to insult them. But the Englishmen, now they are in a precarious condition. The British Empire is now finished. Now they had to carry this man. And under protest they could not go away because they have got business. So why one should go so far distance? Everyone can produce his foodstuff at home. Nature’s arrangement is so nice. If not, little trade. So it is not meant for so much hard labor. Sastra says, “This kind of laboring hard simply for satisfaction of senses is the business of the hog and pig. It is not the business of the human being.” Nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke kastan kaman arhate vid- bhujam ye [Bhag. 5.5.1].
So human society, they should rectify their mode of civilization by taking this Krsna consciousness movement. Then they will be happy. Otherwise, if they keep themself in ignorance, ajnah, dehy ajnah, then ajita-sad-varga: he will never be able to control the senses.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.52
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Detroit, August 5, 1975
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