“Not that I sit down in my armchair and I give direction. The poor soldiers are fighting. No.”
Prabhupada, May 22, 1975, Melbourne: […] Not that I sit down in my armchair and I give direction. The poor soldiers are fighting. No. He should go. Courage. He should personally give direction, “Do like this.” Who is doing that? The minister of defense is very comfortably sitting on his chair, and the poor soldiers are fighting.
That is not required. He must go first of all: “Do like this.” Just like in Battle of Kuruksetra, Arjuna is in front; the other side, Duryodhana. The real fighters, they are face to face. Soldiers are assistant. Where is that? So they should be trained up. So unless he is by his nature very powerful, sauryam… What is that?
Amogha: Sauryam, heroism.
Prabhupada: Heroism. Therefore the ksatriyas are allowed to hunt in the forest to become hero because he has to fight. Just like in medical laboratory they first of all dissect some poor animal before touching human being. Therefore ksatriyas are allowed to hunt to become hero. Facing the tiger, “Come on.” And still, say, about twenty-five years ago, there was a native prince in Jaipur. Every year he would go to the forest and face the tiger, without any weapon. So that is required.
Guest 2: That is good?
Prabhupada: That is required. Those who are politicians, those who are going to be president, they must be like that.
Guest 2: In our society that wouldn’t be thought good.
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