On June 21, 1973, in Mayapur, Srila Prabhupada spoke on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.10.6:
nadhayo vyadhayah klesa
daiva-bhutatma-hetavah
ajata-satrav abhavan
jantunam rajni karhicit
“Due to the king’s having no enemy, the living beings were not at any time disturbed by mental agonies, diseases, or excessive heat or cold.”
Srila Prabhupada explained, “In Maharaja Yudhisthira’s time, the government was responsible to keep people peaceful, without any anxiety. That is government—without any anxiety. And now the government means full of anxieties. You do not sleep peacefully at night. . . . This is our position, full of anxieties. Even we cannot sleep peacefully at night. This government. And here you see, compare the government—no anxiety. No anxiety. Just compare. So what is the use of this rascal government?
“The rascal government must be there because we are rascals. You cannot complain against the government, because we select. It is the days of democracy. We elect our representative. So why should you blame the government? You have created the government. You have sent your representative, a rascal, another big rascal. You are rascal, and another big rascal you have voted; so how you can expect good government? You send only big rascals. That’s all.
“So there cannot be. That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that in the Kali-yuga all the people will be rascals, sudras. Simply by manipulation if one gets vote, he captures the governmental power. Sudra. He’s a sudra. He is not a kshatriya like Maharaja Yudhisthira, trained-up kshatriya. He is a rascal, third-class man, fourth-class man. He gets the vote, and we give vote. So how we can be happy? How we can be carefree or anxiety-free or disease-free? It is not possible.
“Therefore if the people in general become Krishna conscious, become trained up in Krishna consciousness, understand the value of life, how to live, then they can send good representative, Krishna conscious man. Then the government will be nice.”
Source: https://girirajswami.com/blog/?p=16397
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