Purity is the force

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>From a conversation in Vrindaban on 6/24/77, “How to Secure Brahmacaris:”

 

Prabhupada: So people were inclined to send their children to gurukula. Now they

are inclined to send their children to cinema, this, that... A difficult task,

to institute. Loafer class, they should be trained up as Sudras, in carpentry,

moving(?)... It doesn’t, do not require academic education. Simply make a skill.

They’ll learn.

 

Tamala Krsna: We’re not after the loafer class.

 

Prabhupada: No, no. They are not loafer. They are also useful. But they are...

Bringing them to the education, university, they are becoming loafer, ironclad.

As soon as the low-class men are given education, he thinks, “Now I have become

educated, baòa bapu. Why shall I work as a carpenter? I must have credits here.”

And they’re bribing in government office, and sixty percent of the

clerks—useless. They do not know how to make file, cumberous. Because everyone

is going in New Delhi. And all fourth-class men are admitted. I have seen. If

you have to find out an old file, you have to wait six months. Because these

people are neither for this purpose nor that purpose.

 

Gopala Krsna: I was thinking, Srila Prabhupada, we should get this gurukula

accepted by the government also...

 

Prabhupada: No, no, no. Never do that.

 

Gopala Krsna: No, when our gurukula children apply for entry visas, they should

give them visas right away, because these kids from abroad will come to India

for gurukula...

 

Prabhupada: Our program is open. Brahmacari gurukule vasan dantah. We are

training like this, covered in the Bhagavata. Never mind government.

 

Tamala Krsna: If you get accepted by the government, you may have to change you

curriculum so much.

 

Gopala Krsna: No, I mean, just this is a Vaisnava institute, so when our

students apply abroad for an entry visa, they’ll get it right away, and they can

get a student visa for four, five years. I don’t think the gurukula kids come

from abroad and then train them six, you know...

 

Prabhupada: No, no, the parents are prepared to pick up the expense. That’s all.

Government curriculum is useless. They’ll enforce kids to take eggs, three

eggs...

 

Tamala Krsna: That’s right.

 

Prabhupada: ...in daytime, and four pounds flesh. Otherwise there will be

vitamin, less vitamin. Or “Give them vitamins pills, this...” These... “Don’t go

to Yamuna. It is polluted.”

 

YaSodanandana: Even want to follow their textbook, follow their mundane

textbook.

 

Prabhupada: Keep this institution pure, not that we have to make it impure.

Fighting, we want fighting. If we don’t get, it will remain vacant, but we don’t

want to introduce impure. That should be a principle.