Why not varnasrama?

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Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

In order to establish varnasrama, I think we must try to establish

Varnasrama College as Srila Prabhupada indicated. However, we brahmanas are

not wholly conversant with the principles of varnasrama. Therefore it would

behoove us to first thoroughly educate ourselves on the subject which we

must teach as the future brahmana professors of the varnasrama college.

 

In order to accomplish this we would need to 1) compile an exhaustive

collection of knowledge. This collection will be vast and will require

systematically gathering information on all aspects of varnasrama---

including scriptural references, statements by Vaisnava acaryas, historical

accounts, practical experiences, visions, realizations, etc. 2) once that is

available, then the learned Vaisnavas will pour through it extracting,

expanding and arranging the work into an exposition guided by Srila

Prabhupada's instructions. This exposition will most probably be massive,

perhaps six volumes of 1,000 pages each.

 

Then we will have an authoritative text, rules of the game, if you will, A)

for our teachers to use, B) from which to teach our students, C) and from

which to establish our own varnasrama projects.

 

If we take up this task in earnest, our discussions on social details and

applications will be extremely fruitful because they will take place within

the entirety of varnasrama culture, allowing us the ability to see the whole

picture rather than just a tiny extract not necessarily considering all the

factors.

 

To summarize, I propose the establishment of a worldwide committee for

compiling a varnasrama exposition.

 

Your servant,

Danavir Goswami

 

PS:

 

So in the beginning if we start a varnasrama college to teach internation

ally students from all over the world to learn to be educated as brahmanas,

as Ksatriyas, as vaisyas, as sudras, by quality and work, that will be the

basic principle of Krishna Consciousness.

iIf you kindly consider on this point and the varnasrama college is started,

I am sure the chaotic condition of human society will be completely settled

up. (Letter to: Tarun Kanti Ghosh Babu; New Delhi 11 March 1974)

 

Therefore to save the degradation, this catur-varnyam must be established.

That I... The ideal class. People will follow, "Oh, here is the ideal

class." So we are trying to make an ideal class of Krsna conscious people.

And if you treat yourself as degraded, then who will care for you? You

should remain an ideal class. People will follow gradually.

Mahamsa: If a brahmana class is created, then automatically the ksatriyas

and vaisyas and sudras will be changed.

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. The ideal, if you be ideal class, gradually they will

take your advice, what to do. Then immediately the whole degradation will be

finished.

Satsvarupa: Why will they take advice? Will they actually be attracted to

the virtues?

Prabhupada: Yes, naturally. Just like people come to see me. Similarly,

everyone comes.

Aksayananda: Everyone is attracted to you, Prabhupada.

Prabhupada: Yes. So you should be such qualified that people will come to

consult you, to take your advice, and... That is the way. [break] ...one

after another. Just like if you are a qualified lawyer, when one has

difficulty, he comes, consults you, what to do. If you are a qualified

physician, then people will come to consult you. So you become qualified,

ideal; people will come. Otherwise who will care for you? [break]

....principles. No illicit sex, no gambling, no meat-eating and chanting.

These five things only, if you strictly remain on these principles, see how

you are respectable. Immediately you'll be respected. . VedaBase => Morning

Walk -- April 23, 1974, Hyderabad