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Translation = "If someone is ignorant and addicted to the path of saṁsāra, how can one who is actually learned, …

Prabhupāda:

kas taṁ svayaṁ tad-abhijño vipaścid avidyāyām antare vartamānam dṛṣṭvā punas taṁ saghṛṇaḥ kubuddhiṁ prayojayed utpathagaṁ yathāndham

[SB 5.5.17]

So one person is utpathagam yathāndham, another person is vipaścid tad-abhijñaḥ. Two classes of men generally = one who knows …

If you want to manage things, there must be two classes of men, and two classes can be divided into …

Classless means fools, rascals, śūdra. If you classify... Classify means "Here is intelligent class, here is next class, here is …

So this is going on at the present moment, that some small animal accepting one big animal as leader. So …

But that classification is not by birth. That is not by birth. Guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ [Bg. 4.13]. Kṛṣṇa never said, "This classification …

A person born in brāhmaṇa family, if that family is strictly following the brahminical rules and regulation... In the śāstra …

So there must be a first-class man in the society. Śamo damo titikṣa. Where is that educational institution at the …

So therefore it is our little attempt that to train some boys to become first-class character. Śamo damo titikṣa. That …

Tapo... Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa [SB 6.1.13]. So any path you take, the brahmacarya first thing. Without brahmacarya there is no question …

tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena damena vā tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ yamena niyamena vā

[SB 6.1.13]

This is human life. This is human life, not that upstart, foolish, rascals, śūdras, that is human society. That is …

So one class. First-class man, first of all teacher, they require. Therefore the brāhmaṇa class must be there, I mean …

So if we take shelter of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, then we can become first-class men. There is no doubt about …

So Sanātana Gosvāmī recommends, tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena dvijatvaṁ jāyate nṛṇām [Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 2.12]. Tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena. If dīkṣā-vidhāna, initiation process, is done nicely …

Thank you very much.