brahmacari way

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Mother Gunamani wrote:

> What I see is a closed club of more or less young brahmacaries training

>even younger brahmacaries, and as soon as they get married they are out of

>the club, but is that the varnasrama-system? It seems to me that while

>avoiding contact with grhastas/older people they will miss important lessons

>which they will need later on both if they get married or if they will be

>guides to others.

 

Very good comparison. And it's a fact in many places. It's okey

for beginning of spreading Krishna consciousness, but it should'nt

be a system. I think that temples shouldn't be place for living and

having fun. Temples should be holy places of Deity worship and

places to collect community members for religious festivals and

meetings. There should be also run some educational projects,

but not for all varnas.

 

So the main goal in the lives of brahmacaries should be education.

30 and 40 years old people should'nt be welcome in brahmacari

ashramas. They should also get training in KC, but definitely

not as brahmacaries. This way the word "brahmacari" will lose

it's meaning of titul, but it will mean a period of life. When all

old "brahmacaries" will be removed from brahmacari ashrams,

our kids will be more eager to stay there and study. And

these ashrams should have an equal to college educatinal system,

so that children would get a professional certificate after

graduation.

 

Someone will ask, "Hey, but what should we do with all our great

sankirtana man? Didn't they deserve they place to stay there?"

They deserved even more. They deserved their own house

and a wife(husband), fireside chats and beloved children.

And since they peroformed this service so many years, they

supposed to be very fixed in KC, so grhastha life will not

damage their strict sadhana. And after all, no one is restricting

them from their duties. They can continue go on sankirtan,

make grhastha sankirtana parties and distribute prasadam.