Guest guest Posted August 9, 1999 Report Share Posted August 9, 1999 > We have some questions, our aim is to make Varnasrama a practical thing. > > Meditate on this...suppose you are given a school and it is up to you how > you would focus the school, for the sake of the conference the focus would > be Practical Varnasrama... In my opinion a Vaisnava Varna-asrama-dharma Academy should first of all teach its student the basic philosophical understanding and principals of a varna asrama dharma society. This would have first to be researchd and thought, the sociological, economical and political connections and interrelations of the four varnas in such a society. Every society if democracy, or any other has its basic knowledge thought in the schools to the citizans so that there will be a common understanding in society. If this basic understanding is there in the "students" than one could start to teach them the specific varna knowledge, and education. I dont think an aspiring ksatriya would have to learn how to make soap on his own, or other things of this kind wich belong moore to the specific knowledge of the sudras or vaisyas, in my opinion. I anyway have some problems to understand why this self seficiency is caled varnasrama dharma, I think a varna asrama dharma society is a much broader understanding of society than just how to make ones own soap or cloth or whatever of this sudra or vasya specific activitys. Certainly a society needs first and foremost food to feed its citizens and other practical things for life, but is it limited just to this? > 1) How would you teach Practical Varnasrama? > > 2)What would be the initial knowledge/skills to be learned for the small > students? > > 3) What knowledge/skills the graduates should have? > > 4) Should be at certain level specialised schools for certain varnas? If > yes, what would it be? > > ----------------- > > For question two... I thought it was very nice to teach them about making > soap and things like that, very simple and at the same time related with > their everyday lives...that's why I was surprised to hear the complains > from some of the members of the conference about the simple staff. > > Note: > Even though these questions sound like are more for the other conference > (Varnasrama development), I thought it was better for this one since we > are including Varnasrama in our classroom... (at this moment it is in a > small way, we expect to increase as we get input and expertise). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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