People should be trained
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 7 - 12
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 3
SB Canto 4
SB Canto 5
SB Canto 9
People should be trained to become Vaiṣṇavas through the system of varṇa and āśrama, as they were during the reign of Lord Rāmacandra
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: You should be trained up.
Dr. Patel: Woman is the embodiment of māyā.
Prabhupāda: Vikāra... In spite of woman, you'll not be agitated. That training required.
Dr. Patel: You... Now, now, that training is very difficult to get. I am very sorry to say that.
Prabhupāda: No, no. No, no. That training is there. We are, we are training in that way.
Dr. Patel: You must, you must have, I mean, a sort of a... You see, between the object and indriyas...
Prabhupāda: Then according to Swami Nārāyaṇa's principles, I am a fallen.
Dr. Patel: No, no, no, sir.
Prabhupāda: Because I am always surrounded by young girls.
Dr. Patel: No, no, that is... Swami Nārāyaṇa sitting with the women but the sādhus...
Prabhupāda: Then why you said...? Don't you see...?
Dr. Patel: Listen, you are arguing in such a way that there will be a flash between us two.
Prabhupāda: No, no. People should be trained up in such a way that in spite of (indistinct) you should not be agitated. That is, that is.
Guest (1): Our religion... [break] and that these boys... [break]
Dr. Patel: Sādhus, not sannyāsīs. [break]
Prabhupāda: In European countries, in European countries, if you restrict in that way, that will be fanaticism.
Guest (1): That is what I am telling you. It should not be done immediately like that. [break] ...it must be trained, and it will take a long time.
Prabhupāda: Why Europe? Nowadays, here also. That is not possible.
Guest (1): It is not... It is not possible.
Prabhupāda: It is simply utopian, utopian.
Dr. Patel: That is all right. It is not possible. So you are doing like this. When it was possible...,
Prabhupāda: We are, we are training that... Never mind. That is the training of Cāṇakya Paṇḍita. Mātṛvat para-dāreṣu. That women may be thousands, but you see them as your mother. That's it.1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: So, people should be trained up.
Director: Hmm. Excuse me, what do you do this (Indistinct. Talks with other devotees about something)
Prabhupāda: So immediately to solve all the problems like this is to start an institution to train four classes of men. Begin it. There is no training, how you can expect if you allow a child to smoke from the very beginning and to commit all kinds of sinful activities, how you can expect a nice gentleman when he is grown up? It is not possible. It is possible by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. But somebody may not be induced to come and join. But if you train him from the very beginning, then it is possible. Just like we have got our training school, Gurukula, in Dallas, Texas. So from the very beginning, three years, four years, five years old, children they are being trained up.Prabhupāda: So there, and I went there. The proprietor, the organizer, he took me there. So I think if we, if you are serious, let us combinedly open an institution where people should be trained up how to become first class. Children should be trained up. That will make a solution.
Director: Must change society then.
Prabhupāda: No, no change. Let society what it is. We train up some children as we are doing in Dallas, and some men also. Just like we have trained them. It is possible. No. This is practical example. Just like you were in a den, Morningstar.Correspondence
1968 Correspondence
Page Title: | People should be trained |
Compiler: | Serene, Sharmila |
Created: | 04 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=4, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=7, Con=5, Let=1 |
No. of Quotes: | 18 |