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The Krishna consciousness is meant for the brahmanas.

They are not meant for fighting because they are not being trained
for fighting. They have been trained for becoming brahmanas. Who
is brahmana? Brahma janati iti brahmana. The four divisions are
described like this. Janmana jayate sudrah, everyone is born su-
dra. That is accepted. Samskarad bhaved dvijah. Now if you train
him, never mind in which family he’s born, you have to train him.
Just like boys are sent to school for being trained. So everyone is
accepted as sudra, but you now train him. He goes to the guru-
griha.

Guru-griha means teacher’s house. Formerly, for being trained,
there was no such big scale school and colleges. Every village...
Still, fifty years before in India, in every village there was a small
school conducted by the brahmana, and the village children would
be trained up there. So he was sent for training. And there was no
school fee. The boys will go there, and on behalf of the teacher or
spiritual master, they will go, brahmacari, door to door, and beg
and bring forth alms, rice, dahl, grains, and everything. That was
the system. There was no school fee. There was no problem how to
send a boy to the school. Samskara. Now he’s trained up. The
teacher sees the psychology of the boy, in which way he should be
trained. Either he should be trained as a vaisya or he should be
trained as a kshatriya. So everyone was trained like that, but gen-
erally, the son of a kshatriya... Just like Maharaja Ramacandra or
Arjuna, from the very beginning they were trained as kshatriya.

Naturally, if somebody is the son of a medical man his father trains
him to become a medical man in future. That is the natural tenden-
cy. If the boy is different altogether that is another question, but
naturally, that is the tendency. So a kshatriya’s son was trained as
kshatriya. A brahmana’s son was trained as a brahmana and a
vaisya’s son was trained as a vaisya, and sudra had no training. So
gradually this became a caste system. Brahmana’s son became
brahmana. Because formerly, the training was there. But when it is
vitiated, although a person born in the family of a brahmana, he is
doing the work of a sudra. So according to Vedic scripture, one is
classified according to his work and quality, not by birth. That is
the classification of sastra. Just like in the Bhagavad-gita the Lord
says catur-varnyam maya srishtam guna-karma-vibhagasah [Bg.
4.13]. Guna means quality and karma means work. One must be
qualified for the work and he must actually work. Then he is count-
ed classified into that, I mean to say, category. Just like if you are
simply trained or educated as a lawyer, and if you are not practic-