A healthy population is the fundamental principle of peace, prosperity and spiritual progress in the society of human beings.

The moral principles of class organization were designed to direct society as a whole towards spiritual progress by ensuring the maintenance of virtue. The purity of a population depends on the chastity and fidelity of women. Just as a child is easily abused, a woman tends to be corrupted. For this reason, both need the protection of older family members. Also, if the chastity and devotion of women are safeguarded through various acts of piety and respect for family traditions, they will not be drawn into adultery and will engender a virtuous descent, able to participate in the natural organization of social classes and spiritual divisions.

Now, let this social system not be respected, and the assiduous trade between men and women leads to adultery, with the risk of engendering an undesirable population. Through the fault of irresponsible men, defiled, unwanted children invade society, from which then come wars and epidemics. The increase in the number of these undesirables generates for the family and for those who have destroyed its traditions, a life of hell. The ancestors are forgotten, they stop offering them oblations of water and food.

The Vedic traditions of the Vedas, the original scriptures, concerning the pursuit of material benefits, require that oblations of water and food be regularly offered to the ancestors of the family.

This food is first offered to Visnu and then presented to the ancestors as sanctified remains. Indeed, the food first offered to Visnu has the power to deliver a human being from the consequences of all his guilty acts. It may be that our ancestors are still suffering the consequences of their sins, that they cannot even obtain a physical body and are forced to remain in their ethereal body, in the state of mind. To offer them sanctified food is to allow them to escape the miserable conditions in which they find themselves. This service is a family tradition, and all those who do not devote themselves to the direct service of God are required to perform these rites.

The holy being, devotee of God, does not have this duty, because it is given to him by the only grace of his devotional acts towards Lord Krishna, to free thousands of ancestors.

Those who, by their irresponsible acts, break the tradition of lineage, provoke the abandonment of the principles by which prosperity and harmony reign within the family and the nation.

The principles which, in the natural organization of society established in social classes, govern the family and society, are intended to enable human beings to attain the ultimate salvation. When irresponsible heads of state break these traditions, the resulting confusion causes society to forget that the purpose of all existence is Visnu, Krishna. Those who follow these blind leaders are certain to end in chaos.