Varnasrama book update

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Varnasrama book update

by Rabindranatha Dasa Adhikari

December 13, 2006

 

Volume one of the Varnasrama book is coming along. Recently I finished

putting all the quotes about varnasrama from the 3rd canto of Srimad

Bhagavatam into over 150 different categories.

 

So far the book is over 300 pages and it includes not only things directly

said about the four varnas and asramas, but also about the family, women,

children and sex-life.

 

Right now I am working on the 1974 lectures which I am trying to finish by

this month.

 

Volume one will be from 3rd canto of Srimad Bhagavatam and Srila

Prabhupada's 3rd canto lectures as well as his conversations and letters

from 1974. This volume as well as the volumes after this will each consist

of everything on varnasrama of the following: 1) "Simply living and high

thinking" i.e. living a life in Krsna consciousness on the land with cows.

2) Brahmacari (student life) and 3) Grhastra (householder life) 4)

Vanaprastha 5) Sannyasa 6) Brahmana 7) Ksatriya 8) Vaisya and 9) Sudra and

10) Varnasrama in general.

 

The book will come out in the same kind of format as "the Spiritual Master

and the Disciple" and "Sri Namamrta--The Nectar of the Holy Name" by

Subhananda, in other words all the quotes will be broken down into main

categories, sub-categories, sub-sub-categories etc.

 

After putting out volume one, other volumes will be put out and then the

last volume will consist of the remaining quotes about varnasrama "mixed"

with all the quotes from the previous volumes all combined together and

which would come out into one or more volumes.