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Prabhupada, May 21, 1975, Melbourne: …defect of the Western country is practically there is no social structure. The father, mother, they divorce, and the children become careless. Most cases this is the defect.
Director: Happens, yes.
Prabhupada: I have seen many of my students, their family, whole family disrupt on account of father and mother, even in old age, divorce. I have seen Brahmananda’s mother. His father was very… still living. Very good businessman, very nice family, good income. All of a sudden the father and mother disagreed, they divorce. The sons were somewhere; the daughters were somewhere.
Director: That’s cases we deal with. Adoption, and…
Prabhupada: And the father married again, the mother married again. They were not happy, and the business also closed. So by one instance I can understand that how in the Western countries people become out of social structure. The root cause is godlessness. Root cause.
Director: And now divorce is getting easier too, isn’t it?
Prabhupada: That is very dangerous law to allow divorce. Divorce should not be allowed. Even there is some disagreement between husband and wife, it should be neglected. According to Canakya Pandita… He was great politician. He has said that dampatya kalahe caiva bahvarambhe laghu kriya.
The husband and wife’s quarrel should not be taken very seriously. Aja yuddhe (More quote by Canakya) Just like fight between two goats. They are fighting, and if you say “Hut!” they will go away. Similarly, the fight between husband and wife should not be taken very seriously. Let them fight for some time; they will stop automatically.
But the husband and wife fight, and he, as soon as he goes to the lawyer and he gives incentive, “Yes, come to the court.” This is going on. So the first defect is there is divorce law. Another defect is that there is no method how to train a man to become first class. That is there in the Vedic civilization. Now of course in India that is also now abolished by degradation.
Otherwise the society was divided into four classes—brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra. The brahmanas were first-class men, ideal. But in the society there is no ideal men. One should have some example, living example, to see “Oh, here is an ideal man.”
So the ideal man is described here in our Bhagavad-gita. What is the ideal? Any man can be trained up. Not cent percent, but even one percent man becomes ideal, the ninety-nine percent will see and follow. But there is no ideal man. That is the defect.
So just like we are training them as ideal man, by character, by religion, by behavior, by education. That is the purpose of this Krsna consciousness movement. And you can see practically what was their previous life and what they are now. So government should establish an institution to create ideal men. We can help. Full Conversation
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