Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Concerning the gurukula system, after a child attains a certain age . . .
Prabhupāda: No age. As soon as he is able to walk, he can be admitted. What is the wrong there? If he comes to the sea and takes bath and jumps, it doesn't require any age. Any four-year, five-year-old child can do that.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: When he becomes, say, twenty years old, though, when he becomes older . . .
Prabhupāda: First of all begin. Then we shall think of old. But . . . at least when he is older, he will not become a nonsense. That . . . we want to save him from becoming a nonsense. That is our duty. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Brahmacārī gurukule vasan dāntaḥ (SB 7.12.1). When the brahmacārī is residing in gurukula, he must be trained up how to control senses. That is the first education. People are spoiled because they are not trained up to become controller. That is the defect of the modern age. And when one is unable to control senses, he will do all nonsense.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: In Vṛndāvana the gurukula children went to the Yamunā for two days. Even though it was a forty-five-minute walk one way, they enjoyed it.
Prabhupāda: Yes, they'll enjoy.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: It was a very nice procession.
Prabhupāda: Very good health.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: And they're doing it every day now.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. (break) . . . intelligence and kṣatriya's executive power and vaiśya's productive capacity and śūdra's labor. This combined together makes the whole society perfect.
Dr. Patel: How this social order can be generated in India?
Prabhupāda: (to passerby) Thank you. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.
Indian man: Doctor ko saat leke chalte hain ye bahut khatarnak aadmi hai. You walk along with the doctor, he is a very dangerous man. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: The kṣatriya's duty is that everyone is religious. It doesn't matter whether he follows Muslim or . . . that is kṣatriya's duty, not that to discriminate, "The Hindu religion is better than the Muslim religion. Muslim . . ." That is not the way. If everyone is religious, it doesn't matter whether he is Hindu . . .
Dr. Patel: No religious Muslim would have ever done harm to Hindus.
Prabhupāda: Yes.