Guest guest Posted August 18, 2006 Report Share Posted August 18, 2006 Right on... without varnasrama colleges we are going nowhere with this one education, education.. is the key.. Outside ISKCON education of varnasrama - a big challenge We seriously lack resources in every respect Mundane education has all facilities But we have to start somewhere and the varnasrama colleges was what Srila Prabhupada indicated... > 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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