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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
[[Category:Questions On... Bhagavad-gita]]
[[Category:Questions On... Vedic Culture and Philosophy]]
[[Category:Questions On... Children, Childhood]]
[[Category:Questions On... Discrepancies, Slips, Falldowns]]
[[Category:Questions On... Regulated Life, Regulative Principles]]
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Yes. In material world we have got so many obligations... No, your, your, your function is very simple. You become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and train your children in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That's all.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Malcolm -- July 18, 1973, London|Room Conversation with Malcolm -- July 18, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Paramahaṁsa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, in the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated that, you were lecturing that, that unless one performs the proper saṁskāras for the children, they will become degraded. They will not follow the regulative principles and such... They become unwanted population?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. In material world we have got so many obligations.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: For example, in devotee families, if we perform the proper principles in raising children...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, your, your, your function is very simple. You become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and train your children in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That's all.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: But there's always a chance that they may not as well.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That chance is also to you also. Māyā is always there. But our duty should be like that. You become Kṛṣṇa conscious and raise your children to that standard. (indistinct) Just like we are teaching in Dallas. There is nothing extraordinary. The children are there, they're learning how to read, how to write, at the same time rising early in the morning, attending maṅgala-ārātrika, joining in the saṅkīrtana, playing mṛdaṅga, dancing, taking prasādam. (Aside:) That's all right. By such training, automatically they'll be Kṛṣṇa conscious. And then all your duties are complete. If you make him Kṛṣṇa conscious, then all your duty is finished.</p>
<p>Malcolm: Can you make a child Kṛṣṇa conscious without believing yourself?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Can you make a child Kṛṣṇa conscious if you yourself don't believe in Kṛṣṇa consciousness?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If you do not believe, if the father does not believe? You mean to say?</p>
<p>Malcolm: If the father does not feel.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes well, everything is individual. Father is individual and child is individual. Just like Hiraṇyakaśipu.</p>
<p>Malcolm: Can a father impose on a child, something which he does not believe himself.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No Kṛṣṇa consciousness is transcendental position. Once one gets a little touch with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he'll make progress. Just like the wick in a firework. Firework, a big, what is called? (sic:) Pottatter?</p>
<p>Haṁsadūta: Firecracker.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Crack. The long wick, you just set fire: (makes sound:) tille, tille, tille, tille, tille, and when it comes: tung! (laughter) It is like that. You just set up the fire and then one day he'll become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So the knowledge is absolute, it works with anyone.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Even if he does not complete, whatever he has done, that is complete. Because it is spiritual, it is not material. In material world suppose if you want to do something, you have to make the background. And while doing the background if you could not make further progress, everything is finished. But spiritual work is not like that. From the very beginning, whatever you are doing, that is asset. Nothing is lost. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt. Even a little done in spiritual consciousness, that can save you from the greatest danger.</p>
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