Determining Sadvipras

June 29, 1995

Q: Will sadvipras become a formally identified rank or status? If so, how will it be determined as to who is to be accorded this status?

As I have said, it will be those people who will be most

noted for their humanitarian values, for their harmony with all of

life, and for their neo-humanism - for their maintenance of the

balance within all spheres of life and for their spiritual wisdom.

Those leaders will arise spontaneously. They exist even today, but

no value is given to such people. People put into power those who

reflect their values. So value is not given to these people and

they are not brought forward. But, in the future, such people will

be highly valued and they will be brought forward. There will be

no class, no social status that one is born to, but it will be

simply those outstanding individuals who have surpassed all in

their expression of the common values - that is, the value for all

life, the value for the maintenance of harmony and the environment

and of living beings. War will be a thing of the past in such a

society, and they will value the communion with Parama Purus'a.

These things will become of great value, and those people who are

great in these ways will get high status because there will be a

desire for their knowledge, for their vision, and for their

leadership. The people will search about for who reflects the most

noble values, and they will find those people. Those are the people who will be identified as sadvipras, not because there is a

separate class, but because their qualities are apparent - their

integration is apparent and they are the finest reflection of

the values of the society.