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I see there are a lot of young children in the asrama. Do you run sort of a school for them all?

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"I see there are a lot of young children in the asrama. Do you run sort of a school for them all"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes... Hm. They're just starting. Not yet started. But they're taking care.
Room Conversation with Indian Guests -- July 11, 1973, London:

Guest (1): I see there are a lot of young children in the āśrama. Do you run sort of a school for them all?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (1): You have your own school. Somebody teaches them.

Prabhupāda: Hm. They're just starting. Not yet started. But they're taking care.

Guest (1): How many children are here?

Prabhupāda: You can lie down. He's feeling sleepy. Give him some pad, and sleep there. There is pad. Go and sleep here. Let him sleep there.

Guest (1): (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: No, why? There is... Go and sleep.

Guest (1): Go and sleep?

Prabhupāda: Yes, go and sleep. Take rest. Go on.

Guest (3): You know, Prabhupāda, when you came to my house that evening...

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Guest (3): You had hari-kīrtana at our house and everything.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (3): We had a very funny incident after you left. After two or three days, my young daughter, you know... She's about two or two and a half at that time. She was sitting in one corner of the house, and she, you know, those cups like this you have to have, to keep under the furniture legs, you know, cup like this, she had two of them, and she was doing like that. And, uh...

Prabhupāda: Karatālas.

Guest (3): My daughter. I asked her, you know, "What are you doing?" She replied quietly, "I'm doing Hare Kṛṣṇa."

Prabhupāda: Just see.

Guest (3): So that really hit me hard, and I thought, "Look, one day's sat-saṅga can have that effect on life, how much bigger effect it would have..."

Prabhupāda: Intelligent, this is intelligent.

Guest (3): "...if there's a greater association." And that really led me to India, and say, "Well, in India I would have more of these spiritual things and more of that atmosphere, environment." And, well, you know, that particular incident really struck me.

Prabhupāda: No, you can attend here. You remain here.

Guest (3): And, you know, it was the first time she saw a sat-saṅga, first time in her life.

Prabhupāda: No, no, the wonderful thing is that this is a method of spiritual realization which attracts even a child. Unless one denies to be attracted, everyone is attracted. Even a child, even a dog. This is the... Therefore it is universal. Unless you deny to accept it, attraction is for everyone. If the child is innocent, he immediately exhibits his attraction.

Guest (3): I was really surprised when she said that, you know.

Prabhupāda: Oh, I have seen many. As soon as there is chanting and dancing, small children, automatically they do like this. Automatically. They dance. We have got many children. They dance, they chant. And they fall down and murmurs all the mantras. What is his name?

Satsvarūpa: Bhakta Viśvareta.

Prabhupāda: Ah. Oh, he'll fall flat just like... And he will chant all these mantras. "Nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale..." A small child at three years old. You see.

Page Title:I see there are a lot of young children in the asrama. Do you run sort of a school for them all?
Compiler:Mangalavati, Rishab
Created:06 of Jun, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1