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Prabhupāda: [Govindam prayers playing; sings along] Hmm. [leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much.

Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. [devotees offer obeisances]

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Hmm.

Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, First Canto, Third Chapter, text number 20. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]

avatāre ṣoḍaśame paśyan brahma-druho nṛpān triḥ-sapta-kṛtvaḥ kupito niḥ-kṣatrām akaron mahīm

[SB 1.3.20]

Prabhupāda: Ladies. [ladies chant] That's all. Word meaning?

Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms]

avatāre---in the incarnation of the Lord; ṣoḍaśame---sixteenth; paśyan---seeing; brahma-druhaḥ---disobedient to the orders of the brāhmaṇas; nṛpān---the kingly order; triḥ-sapta---thrice seven …

[13:05]

Translation = "As Bhṛgupati, the sixteenth incarnation of the Godhead, the Lord annihilated the administrative class, or kṣatriyas, twenty-one times, …

Prabhupāda: So, keśava dhṛta-bhṛgupati-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare. Kṣatriya-rudhira... Hmm? What is that verse? Can anyone cite?

kṣatriya-rudhira-maye jagad-apagata-pāpaṁ snapayasi śamita-bhava-tāpam keśava dhṛta-bhṛgupati-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare

[Śrī Daśāvatāra-stotra 6]

So Bhṛgupati... Brahmā-druha. The administrative class, the politicians, they must obey the order of the brāhmaṇas. That is Vedic culture. …

Take, for example, if your president takes our advice how to rule, then everything will be very nice. Of course, …

So brahma-druha. The society must be brāhmaṇic. Vedic culture means to create every person a brāhmaṇa, not to keep him …