THE FIGHTING. IT IS YOUR DUTY...
In the Gītā, Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna, “As a fighter, you have to fight. You cannot step away from the fighting. It is your duty.” Nowadays I have practical experience that the draft board of your country is calling for boys to join the army, but they are not willing. They are not willing because they are not trained as kṣatriyas, warriors. They are trained as śūdras, laborers. Therefore the caste system is very scientific. A section of people should be trained as brāhmaṇas, 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 brāhmaṇas 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 śūdras, 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.
Excerpt from Krsna Consciousness The Topmost Yoga System by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada - Chapter 4 The Goal of Yoga.
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