Gaudiya siddhanta - ebooks - ISKCON desire tree
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comparison. How can a freely wandering dog be compared to a sold-out servant?"<br />
yo'nyatra kurute yatnam<br />
anadhitya srutim dvijah<br />
sa sammudho na sambhasyo<br />
veda-bahyo dvijatibhih<br />
" O Brahmanas, one who does not study the Vedas but carefully endeavors for other pursuits is certainly<br />
foolish and ostracized from Vedic life. Brahmanas should not speak to such a person."<br />
In the case of an emergency then Srimad Bhagavatam (11.17.47) explains that a brahmana may<br />
perform another occupation -<br />
sidan vipro vanig-vrttya<br />
panyair evapadam taret<br />
khadgena vapadakranto<br />
na sva-vrttya kathancana<br />
"If a brahmana cannot support himself through his regular duties and is thus suffering, he may adopt<br />
the occupation of a merchant and overcome his destitute condition by buying and selling material<br />
things. If he continues to suffer extreme poverty even as a merchant, then he may adopt the<br />
occupation of a ksatriya, taking sword in hand. But he cannot in any circumstances become like a dog,<br />
accepting an ordinary master."<br />
Srimad Bhagavatam (12.3.35) also states however, that this is one of the symptoms<br />
of Kali-yuga -<br />
panayisyanti vai ksudrah<br />
kiratah kuta-karinah<br />
anapady api mamsyate<br />
vartam sadhu jugupsitam<br />
"Businessmen will engage in petty commerce and earn their money by cheating. Even when there is no<br />
emergency, people will consider any degraded occupation quite acceptable." (SB 12.3.35)<br />
By eating the food of non-brahmanas, one also falls from his exalted brahminical position (sudrannapustan)<br />
—<br />
nadyac chudrasya vipro'nnam<br />
mohad va yadi kamatah<br />
sa sudra-yonim vrajati<br />
yas tu bhunkte hy-anapadi<br />
"A brahmana should never eat food cooked by a sudra. If other than in an emergency one either<br />
willingly or mistakenly does eat food cooked by a sudra, then as a result of eating such food he is born<br />
as a sudra." (Kurma Purana)<br />
According to the Dharma-sastras, if one does take birth in a brahmana family but does not cultivate<br />
scriptural knowledge, he cannot be accepted as a brahmana (svadhyaya-tyagi). This is stated thus —<br />
yaitral-laksyate sarpa<br />
vrttam sa brahmanah smrtah
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