Does varnashrama romanticize, demonize or utilize the world?
So the question is, there is, Bhaktivinoda Thakur analyzes this quite elaborately. He says there is vaidik varanashram, there is asuri varanashram, and there is vaidyanik varanashram. So vaidik varanashram was what was traditionally present in Indian society and that was, so in vaidik varanashram the philosophy is that if a kshatriya does the duty very well, then kshatriya can go to swarga.
If a brahmana does the duty very well, the brahmana can go to tapaloka. It is for material elevation. Unfortunately, over time, that vaidik, that which was centered entirely on the body.
So, now that is, has been, not even a vaidik varanashram. Labeling people just by the body. What we want in the path of bhakti is vaidyanik varanashram.
Vaidyanik is a Sanskrit of scientific So what does it mean? That means that we need some socio-cultural So we, when we talk about the kshatriya by doing strictly the duties called varanashram, but when we want varanashram, that is for just having the socio-cultural and bhagavatam talks about this when it says that pumbhir vijas reshta, varanashram adhubhavasa, swanushya The purpose of all varanashram What we are trying to revive right now, within our movement is basically an attempt to have some socio-cultural system which will enable devotees to pursue their material careers to fulfill their material duties in an environment that is Today's larger cultural environment is So if we can have an environment which is conducive to devotion, that is varanashram So then in that case, we utilize Now as far as the followers of Shankara, yes You know, when the caste system became very rigid Around 5th century B.C at that time it had become extremely rigid and that time as a reaction to the Registry A.D. the various various forms of proper shastric understanding in the highest sense but it was an improvised arrangement to some vedic followers within one umbrella and because that was the time when varanashram when sort of what we could the caste hierarchies also and that's why the bhaktas whether this is B.C within our vedic culture we have Narottam Das Thakur he is not a brahmana, he was persecuted so many other saints were persecuted so that that birth-based thing was not entirely removed but at least the structure was restored so varanashram essentially is utilization for us of some conducive socio-cultural arrangement by which we can practice the transcendental process of bhakti.