Just like a man has got several sons, but all of them, in the
beginning, they are illiterate. Now, in their grown-up age, by accepting
different departmental knowledge, one becomes a medical practitioner, one becomes
engineer, one becomes lawyer, or one becomes vagabond. So not by birth, one
becomes engineer or medical man or this or... No. Everything by culture, by
education. Similarly, the Vedic culture means everyone is given the chance to
become first-class brahmana. That is called brahminical culture. Everyone is
given. Because without becoming a brahmana, nobody can understand what is God.
And the human life is meant for understanding God. That is the only business of
human form of life. Not like cats and dogs -- how to eat, how to sleep, how to
have sexual intercourse, and how to defend. These the animals know. The birds,
bees, they know how to do it.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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