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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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If you want . . . we might have done mistakes in our life, but if we train our children in the brahmacārī system and gradually they understand the bhāgavata-dharma, at least their life becomes perfect. And in the Bhāgavata it is ordered that . . . you will find all this in the Ṛṣabhadeva's instruction. Pitā na sa syāt jananī na sa syāt sva-jano na sa syā . . . guror na sa syāt (SB 5.5.18): "One should not become guru, one should not become kinsmen, one should not become father, one should not become mother," na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum, "if one cannot give lesson to the children how to avoid death." This is the duty of the guardians, of the government, how to avoid death. Where is that education? So that is the defect of the modern education. There is no training. So, gardulika pravāha. It is going on, very risky civilization.
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[[Vanisource:751128 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Delhi|751128 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Delhi]]
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They train children as vyabhicāri, so how you can expect good civilization? So everything is there. It is very difficult, undoubtedly, but if you train from the very beginning of life . . . that is stated by Prahlāda Mahārāja:

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:kaumāra ācaret prājño
:dharmān bhāgavatān iha
:durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma
:tad apy adhruvam arthadam 
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He says . . . he was child, five years old. He was . . . his other . . . in tiffin hours the other children of the demons, they were playing, and Prahlāda Mahārāja was asking to sit down and hear him. He was preaching, "My dear friends," kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān, "don't spoil your life by playing. Now this is the period of understanding bhāgavata-dharma." Bhāgavata-dharma means to understand God and our relationship with God and act accordingly. That is called bhāgavata-dharma. So kaumāra ācaret prajñā dharmān bhāgavatān. If you want . . . we might have done mistakes in our life, but if we train our children in the brahmacārī system and gradually they understand the bhāgavata-dharma, at least their life becomes perfect. And in the Bhāgavata it is ordered that . . . you will find all this in the Ṛṣabhadeva's instruction. Pitā na sa syāt jananī na sa syāt sva-jano na sa syā . . . guror na sa syāt ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.18|SB 5.5.18]]): "One should not become guru, one should not become kinsmen, one should not become father, one should not become mother," na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum, "if one cannot give lesson to the children how to avoid death." This is the duty of the guardians, of the government, how to avoid death. Where is that education? So that is the defect of the modern education. There is no training. So, gardulika pravāha. It is going on, very risky civilization.
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