Excerpt from conversation, Washington D.C., July 8, 1976
VIPINA: His question is that now the government is corrupt, so what can be immediately done?
PRABHUPADA: How there can be, because the democracy? You are corrupt, therefore your government is corrupt. You correct yourself, the government will be automatically corrected. If you are rascals, the government will be rascals. The government means elected. So if you are not rascal, you’ll not elect another rascal to take charge of the government affairs. But because you are rascal, you’ll send another rascal.
So how can you expect good government? You do not know whom to select. And besides that, the whole population is rascal, shudra. So anyone you elect, if he’s by qualification he’s a shudra, worker, he’s not intelligent person, he’s not brahmana, he’s not kshatriya. Actually, the legislative assembly, or in your country, Senate? They should be all brahmanas. They give advice. Formerly this was the system. Although it was monarchy, even Lord Ramachandra or similar kings, they were not ruling independently—they were taking advice from learned brahmanas, sages.
So the legislative assembly should be composition of intellectual brahmanas. Then the other administrators, the President or the minister, they should be kshatriyas. In this way, if social organization is made, then there will be perfect peace. If shudras are allowed to rule over, what they know? Their only aim is that so long he is in the office, “Let me collect some money,” that’s all. And that will be the latest atmosphere, dasyu-dharmabhih. Rajanyair dasyu-dharmabhih. All the government men will become thieves and rogues. Dasyu means thieves and rogues. So as the thieves and rogues capture you on the street and ask “Whatever you have got, give, otherwise I shall kill you,” so this will be the position in the Kali-yuga. It is happening now. You cannot have any private property; everything you have to declare. Otherwise, it will be taken by force. So people will be very much embarrassed by two things: one thing is taxation, and another thing will be scarcity of food. In this way, all the people all over the world will be embarrassed, so much so that they will leave their home, hearth and home, acchinna-dara-dravina yasyanti giri-kananam. [From Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.8: “Losing their wives and properties to such avaricious and merciless rulers, who will behave no better than ordinary thieves, the citizens will flee to the mountains and forests.”] Being separated from family and property, they will take shelter in the hilly ranges or in the forest to get relief. This will be the position. Harassment, so much harassment, by nature, by government.
So therefore for complete happy society, this Krishna consciousness movement is essential. All intelligent persons, they should join this movement and reform the present social, political, religious. All field of activities, they should reform. Then people will be happy. Not only happy in this life, but also next life.
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