Gurukula Lawsuit Special - The Facts

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> Gurukulas are set

> up specifically to train boys to become priests or preachers, and are not

> intended to provide secular education, and are not intended to equip the

> graduates for secular society, and are designed to protect the children by

> insulating them from society.

 

Was that what Prabhupada really wanted?

How to maintain a family by being only a priest in a temple?

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> Gurukulas are set

> up specifically to train boys to become priests or preachers,

 

Maybe that's their traditional purpose. But in terms of that first

generation of ISKCON children, we know that the criteria for

attendance were more inclusive. There are Prabhupada quotes that say

that all children should attend and other quotes that showed that he

knew that there were both females and boys who were not brahminically

inclined there.

 

Harsi (das) HKS (Timisoara - RO) wrote:

>Was that what Prabhupada really wanted?

>How to maintain a family by being only a priest in a temple?

 

Good point. I guess if that's the only valid reason to send kids to

gurukula, it would exclude a lot of children (i.e. females and those

boys not preparing for the priesthood).

 

So :

1) how do we provide a KC education for the rest of our future

generations of Vaisnavas who are not going to be male priests:

through Sunday school, after-school classes (like Chowpatty or the

Hebrew school model) or what.....?

2) how do you know at age 5 if your son is going to be a full-time,

life-long preacher? And even if the parents think they know, do they

have the right to restrict his career options and ability to support

a family?

 

Ys,

Madhusudani dasi