Democracy - an essential subject

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Democracy is defined as a system of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. However, a people in general cannot choose who is fit to be their leader, as they lack the intelligence. Especially in this age of kali, everyone is born a shudra, that is without much intellectual understanding. Therefore Srila Prabhupada called democracy as government of the shudras, by the shudras, and for the shudras. What is needed is government of Krishna and for Krishna. As Krishna is root of all existence, pleasing Krishna takes care of everyone's needs. As everything in creation belongs to Krishna, so everything must be utilized for His satisfaction. Such a government can only exist under the direction of a pure devotee. A devotee is naturally sympathetic to all, including the shudras and people in the other three categories of occupational duties, plus all other living entities, and he also has the intelligence given him by Krishna, as to how he may serve all. Thus a government by a devotee is the only real option to democracy. Otherwise in name of democracy we have only systems where one class of people is fighting another at international, national, communal, neighbourhood, familial or individual levels, as nobody is satisfied. Srila Prabhupada rightly called democracy as 'demon crazy'.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Democracy category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following NUMBER quotes.


   
 

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