Gurukula

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> >You are argueying on slippering ground here...

>

> Not at all. Actual gurukula is the best possible system of education for

> boys, for it is based upon guru-sadhu-sastra.

>

The question would be, did Srila Prabhupad actually had introduced the

actual gurukula? Where are the examples from the history, scriptures? Or,

was he just trying to find a way how to introduce Krishna consciousness in a

completely new circumstances?

 

 

> the "experiment." Whether that attempt would succeed or fail, gurukula, as

> certified by guru-sadhu-sastra, remains the timeless essential system of

> spiritual and material education for boys.

>

So this timeless essential system is that only the brahminical and

ksatriya oriented boys get the training for some time. This is a minority of

the population.

And do you know why it was only ksatriya and brahmana boys that were

trained in brahmacarya?

Because this are the only one's that can really follow it.

 

No use in waisting your time to train somebody something that this person

by nature can't do it.

 

So, I would propose gurukula for the qualified boys and Varnasrama

college for everybody. Because in the real life one needs to know some

occupation in order to survive. In the vedic society sudras and vaishyas

were learnig different skills from their fathers, but we don't have those

fathers and society set up. So, in the begining (which might mean even some

one hundred or two hundred years) education for different varnas would have

to be done communally (Varnasrama colleges) or everybody has to get a karmi

education. And in the very begining we have to get even our teachers

educated in the karmi society in order to get qualified teachers. Otherwise,

how are they going to teach students about different skills?

 

Ys. Sraddha dd