Gurukula

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> >This training of so-called brahmacaris didn't bring them any good.

> >Because

> they >anyway get married and when they get married they have no idea how

> to resupricate >with a women. They have hardly seen their mother and

> father relating to each other, >so they don't have a role model how to

> behave.

>

> I humbly submit that this is a speculative idea. Brahamcary training is

> essential for creating good grhastas. And that training is best given at

> the gurukula. Certainly, the boys would have some very limited degree of

> exposure to the husband-wife dealings of the guru and guru-patni, but how

> little? SP told us that "Even 50 years ago in India a wife was forbidden

> to see her husband during the day." So what kind of so-called normal

> husband-wife relationship do we think gurukula brahmacaries actually could

> have observed?

Maybe it is the question what they got teached in the gurukula? And it

doesn't seem that what they have learned can help them very much in the real

life. I think that those boys were more getting training how to be a

sannyasi and not how to be a householder, even if the household ashrama is

the first thing which they have to hit in the real life.

 

> That is the fault of the unqualified or downright demonic so-called

> gurukula teachers/sannyasis--*not* of the gurukula system as Srila

> Prabhupada intended it to be.

So, where are those qualified teachers?

 

> But it was not the result of a superior gurukula training--rather, the

> inauspicious, tragic result of gross neglect and abuse. Abuse of a good

> thing does not turn the good thing into bad. As in the example above, if I

> take a superexcellent motor vehicle and drive it into the wall of your

> apartment building or home, that doesn't mean that the superior vehicle

> has become inferior. It simple means that I, the driver, am a flaming

> idiot! Not the designer of the car, not the car itself, but the *driver*

> was the inferior component.

But, if we have only flaming idiots who don't know how to drive a

superexcellent vehicles, then I think we have to give them some kind of

simpler car which they can manage, that they don't end up driving into the

walls.

Ys. Sraddha dd