# EDUCATION - GURUKULA ## Opening Schools ![[letters/1968/681227_satyabhama|am very glad to see your enthusiasm in the matter of starting a Krsna consciousness primary school in New Vrndavana]] —Satyabhama, 27 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681227_satyabhama|have no desire to start the school in any city. City life, especially in this Age of Kali-yuga, is very much polluted.]] —Satyabhama, 27 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690323_brahmanandaa|formulate the whole curriculum because we have to immediately submit to the Draft Department and if this is accepted that will be a great gain for our Society.]] —Brahmananda, 23 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691207_sridhara_maharaja|They are trying to develop a school of our ideal in that place.]] —Hamsaduta, 7 December, 1969 --- ![[letters/1971/711121_satsvarupaa|am very much anxious to open schools for educating children of responsible leaders in our Krsna consciousness way of life, especially also in India.]] —Satsvarupa, 21 November, 1971 --- ![[letters/1972/720110_aniruddha|I am very much pleased that you are enthusiastic to instruct our Krsna consciousness children at Isavasya school. I have heard from Satsvarupa that we have not got that big building we were trying for. Nevermind, the important thing is that we con...]] —Aniruddha, 10 January, 1972 --- ![[letters/1974/740411_dayananda|I think also that you are the right man to be in charge of our school. It is especially nice to hear that the boys are becoming first-class preachers; that is especially needed. Without preaching, our institution becomes all rubbish. So it is very...]] —Dayananda, 11 April, 1974 --- ![[letters/1972/720412_giriraja|As soon as possible we should open our own school and teach children Krsna consciousness through an English medium, that is one of our programs. Our school will not be government recognized because we cannot follow the government syllabus. We want...]] —Giriraja, 12 April, 1972 --- ![[letters/1976/760421_puranjana|Now that the Dallas gurukula has been closed we have opened many smaller regional gurukulas on some of our farming communities, such as our farms in Vancouver, Pennsylvania, and also Mississippi as well as others. It is best if you go to one of th...]] —Mrs. Blasko, 21 April, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760506_jagadisa|your full-time engagement should now be how to organize the gurukulas all over the world. Do it very nicely and thoughtfully.]] —Jagadisa, 6 May, 1976 --- ## The Purpose ![[letters/1968/680122_satsvarupa|Child is the father of man, so the basic principle of any type of life is to instruct the children from the very beginning in Krsna consciousness. Children grow to be the topmost leaders of the human society.]] —Hamsaduta, 22 January, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680506_mukunda|She has got nice parents and has the opportunity of being in Krsna consciousness from childhood. It is therefore needed that we may train some children in our Krsna consciousness movement,]] —Mukunda, 6 May, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681205_aniruddha|We want such teaching department to teach and raise children to the standard of Krsna consciousness.]] —Aniruddha, 5 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681219_aniruddha|we are hoping to obtain a schooling program in New Vrndavana where our boys may be trained up in the principles of Krsna consciousness as well as reading, writing and arithmetic.]] —Aniruddha, 19 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681227_satyabhama|If you take charge of the children of our devotees and give them nice education strictly on Krsna consciousness principles, it will be a great help to the preachers,]] —Satyabhama, 27 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1970/700309_hayagriva|Another important thing is our theistic school in New Vrndavana. If you can establish a nice educational center, I know many parents of your country will be glad to send their children in New Vrndavana. But we have to create a nice atmosphere and ...]] —Hayagriva, 9 March, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700314_satyabhama|your desire to raise many such souls in Krsna consciousness is very nice proposal. We need as many Krsna conscious men as possible, trained from the very beginning of their lives,]] —Satyabhama, 14 March, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700725_ekayani|So what is learned in the early years of life, will not depart for whole life, therefore do this work very carefully to explain simply and directly—Who is Krsna? Who are we?]] —Ekayani dasi, 25 July, 1970 --- ![[letters/1972/720620_sons_and_daughters|consider your work the most important in the society because you are shaping the future generation of our Krsna consciousness preachers, and this is not any small thing.]] —Sons and Daughters, 20 20, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720701_satsvarupa]] —Satsvarupa, 1 July, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721211_mohanananda]] —Mohanananda, 11 December, 1972 --- ![[letters/1973/730127_marie_priterel|Gurukula is our most important project. If the children are given a Krsna conscious education from early childhood, then there is great hope for the future of the world.]] —Dayananda and Nandarani, 27 January, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/730218_gurudasa|These children in gurukula are the most fortunate children in the world, because right from the beginning they are having the association of Radha and Krsna.]] —Bhaktin Toni, 18 February, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/730411_jayapataka|Now I am concerned that the gurukula experiment should come out nicely. These children are the future hope of our Society, so it is a very important matter how we are training them in Krsna consciousness from the very childhood. It was yourself wh...]] —Satsvarupa Maharaja, 11 April, 1973 --- ![[letters/1974/740411_dayananda]] —Dayananda, 11 April, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741012_mr._perry_muckerheide._perry_muckerheide._perry_muckerheide|Recently I have visited our gurukula school in Dallas, and I was quite satisfied how the boys and girls are being trained up to be ideal Vaisnavas. This training from an early age is important, and I also was fortunate to have received such traini...]] —Tulsi devi dasi, 12 October, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741117_agent_central_bank_of_india]] —Draft of Additions to Memorandum of Association for Calcutta Registration, 17 November, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750202_sahadeva|You are very fortunate to have the opportunity of attending gurukula, so don't waste this opportunity. Take full advantage of it]] —Candramukhi devl dasi, 2 February, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750314_mr._dennany._dennany._dennany|You are so fortunate to have such training in Krsna consciousness from the very beginning of childhood. So, take full advantage of it and follow very obediently what your older Godbrothers and Godsisters ask you to do.]] —Kṛṣṇa dasi, 14 March, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760120_jayatirtha]] —Jayatirtha, 20 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760624_aksayananda|Now you can utilize your knowledge of marketing for Krsna's service, idam hi pumsas tapasah srutasya va, sv-istasya suktasya ca buddhi-dattayoh, etc. This is the perfection of education. Gurukula education should be trained up for their character....]] —Gopala Kṛṣṇa, 24 June, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760918_dr._b.n._shukla._b.n._shukla._b.n._shukla|To study other things as a high grade scholar is secondary for us. The first thing is to build up character and be experienced in the understanding of the conclusions of the Srimad-Bhagavatam:]] —Dixit dasa, 18 September, 1976 --- ## Management ![[letters/1968/681007_hayagriva|shall request you to think on this matter how we can organize a small party of brahmacari school, so that the government may recognize it and that will be a nice program.]] —Hayagriva, 7 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681205_aniruddha|So far as the lady psychiatrist making tests with our children, you should know that our children are fireproof and waterproof due to Krsna consciousness, so there is no harm for them. Let them test if they wish; we shall come out successful.]] —Aniruddha, 5 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690808_rupanuga]] —Rupanuga, 8 August, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/701028_bhavananda|It is very encouraging that you have got a license from the Board of Education to continue our children's school. Kindly organize it nicely and it shall be a great achievement.]] —Bhavananda, 28 October, 1970 --- ![[letters/1971/710815_indira|The children of our devotees may live with their parents perpetually because you are all living in the temple and already engaged in devotional service. Other instructions are for those not engaged in Krsna consciousness.]] —Indira, 15 August, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/711118_paramananda|This project of opening a school for young children may be expanded to include inviting children of respectable families for some tuition fee]] —Paramananda, 18 November, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/711217_satsvarupa]] —Satsvarupa, 17 December, 1971 --- ![[letters/1972/720110_aniruddha|I have read that you are 'screening very carefully' the children who want to come there. That is not a very good proposal. All children of devotees should be welcome.]] —Aniruddha, 10 January, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720216_chaya|Complete separation from the boys is not necessary for girls at such young age, so I don't require that they must be educated separately, only that they should live separately.]] —Caya dasi, 16 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720414_bhavananda|Our girls can be engaged for teaching as well as temple worship.]] —Bhavananda, 14 April, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720511_gargamuni|Regarding dancing, our dancing is ecstatic. We need not waste time five hours daily instead of chanting, for practicing. We are not professional dancers, neither we require it. These things should not be encouraged. In New York they have such acti...]] —Gargamuni, 11 May, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720910_rsabhadeva|Now we are at the Dallas school and it is a very nice place and just suitable for educating your son here when he becomes old enough, at least four or five years old.]] —Rsabhadeva, 10 September, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721105_puri_maharajji|That school is very, very important business, and the best man must be found out for taking charge there and developing it nicely,]] —Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, 5 November, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721211_mohanananda]] —Mohanananda, 11 December, 1972 --- ![[letters/1973/730323_satyabhama|all of our children should go to Dallas when they are four and begin their training program there.]] —Satyabhama, 23 March, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/730419_satsvarupa|Regarding dancing, our dancing is ecstatic. We need not waste time five hours daily instead of chanting, for practicing. We are not professional dancers, neither we require it. These things should not be encouraged. In New York they have such acti...]] —Satsvarupa Maharaja, 19 April, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/731004_satsvarupa|Yes, Dayananda is correct. When the boys and girls become ten or twelve years and above, then they should be separated. At that time special care should be taken, because once they become a victim of sex their whole life becomes spoiled.]] —Satsvarupa, 4 October, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/731013_mohanananda|But, on the whole the gurukula standard should be free education, boarding, and lodging. People shall voluntarily contribute as far as possible.]] —Mohanananda dasa, 13 October, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/731016_madhudvisa]] —Dayananda dasa, 16 October, 1973 --- ![[letters/1974/740618_jagadisa|I am always eager to hear that gurukula is going well so he very vigilant that this program with the older boys in New Vrndavana as well as all levels of teaching at Dallas are just to the standard as I introduced it.]] —Jagadisa, 18 June, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740904_temple_president|One thing I received one letter from gurukula regarding the Krsna Bowl contests, and I want you to know that nothing new should be added. Whatever I have introduced should remain. Nothing new should be added. New things means their brain is not cl...]] —Rupanuga dasa, 4 September, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741112_tripurari|Regarding gurukula, they are in financial difficulty, so introduce book distribution. Sankirtana and books distribution should be pushed side by side, and there will be no difficulties. That is our experience.]] —Hamsaduta dasa, 12 November, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/741115_jagadisa_jayatirtha|So, for maintaining the gurukula, at least the cost price for the books must be paid. Gurukula can take the profit for its maintenance. BBT cannot pay for maintenance of the temples. BBT can only pay for printing and temple properties and construc...]] —Jagadisa, 15 15, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/751120_ghanasyama|If we organize very nicely, the Indian families will send their children. The whole world is misled. You must apply your brains how to spread Krsna consciousness.]] —Jagadisa dasa, 20 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760122_jayatirtha]] —Jayatirtha, 22 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760122_jagadisa|Actually it is the responsibility of the parents to maintain gurukula. By taxing the temples or taking loan from the BBT the parents are being allowed to avoid their responsibility.]] —Jagadisa, 22 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760304_gurukula_devotees|My dear gurukula devotees; Please accept my blessings. I have requested that Dayananda go to take complete charge of gurukula, so you all please cooperate with him. I do not wish that the gurukula should be closed. Please work combinedly and endea...]] —unidentified, 4 March, 1976 --- ![[letters/1977/770316_minakshi|So far as gurukula is concerned, literary education is for the brahminical class, not for all.]] —Nityananda dasa, 16 March, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770331_lilavati|Children and those with childlike mentalities will do better to chant 'Hare Krsna' and take prasadam. We cannot water down the philosophy to make it more palatable. Our books must remain as they are. Do not waste your time any more with such attem...]] —Lilavati dasi, 31 March, 1977 --- ## Teaching ![[letters/1968/681219_aniruddha|our boys may be trained up in the principles of Krsna consciousness as well as Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.]] —Aniruddha, 19 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690204_aniruddha|Our movement is not only for some theoretical teaching, but it is for developing practical character and definite understanding.]] —Aniruddha, 4 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690808_rupanuga|We have to see the boy's tendencies first. This will be judged when he is at least sixteen years old.]] —Rupanuga, 8 August, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691107_hayagriva|Please also take care of the children. They are our future hopes and the adolescent age is the most dangerous age. It is the turning point of one's life. In this age, if you take care of the children, surely they will come out first-class Krsna co...]] —Hayagriva, 7 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700509_gurudasa|So I am very much anxious to know what is the actual situation because I can sense that Mr. Parikh wants to introduce something in my absence which is completely against Krsna consciousness.]] —Gurudasa, 9 May, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700719_syamasundara|Your report for organizing village schools in England is very encouraging. Similarly I have received report of Amsterdam also very nice. So it can be easily guessed that Europe is a very good field for spreading this movement. So in consultation w...]] —Syamasundara, 19 July, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/701004_yogesvara|I think this book is meant for somewhat older children, about ten to fifteen years. We are also immediately requiring some books for much younger children, say five to ten years age.]] —Yogesvara, 4 October, 1970 --- ![[letters/1971/710501_laksmimoni|Deity worship can be learned at not less than ten years by children. Before that they can assist. They can learn how to bow down, how to dance and chant, how to make garlands, clean arati utensils, etc. In this way they can be engaged. These are a...]] —Laksmimoni, 1 May, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/711225_amogha|I am very glad that you are teaching Krsna consciousness in the schools. That is our best field for training people in Krsna consciousness.]] —Amogha, 25 December, 1971 --- ![[letters/1972/720110_aniruddha|there is no question of force or punishment. If there is need you may shake your finger at them but never physical punishment is allowed.]] —Aniruddha, 10 January, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720129_satsvarupa|In training the children you will see that whatever is taught to them they will take very seriously.]] —Satsvarupa dasa, 29 January, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720213_hayagriva|He personally used to practice Himself the injunctions and then He used to teach others. That is our principle. Unless one is perfectly behaved person, he cannot teach others.]] —Hayagriva, 13 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720216_satsvarupa|If Aniruddha is shaky in his Krsna consciousness, how he can teach the children? Unless one is firmly convinced about Krsna consciousness, I don't think the children will learn properly from such a person. Other experienced teachers may be called ...]] —Satsvarupa, 16 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720216_satsvarupa|Not so much time should be wasted giving so much academic knowledge, a little Reading and Writing, that's all. Let them be able to read our books very nicely, and that will be their higher education.]] —Satsvarupa, 16 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720216_chaya|simply a little mathematics and being able to read and write well, that's all, no universities. Their higher education they will get from our books, and other things they will get from experience, like preaching, SKP, etc.]] —Caya dasi, 16 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720216_chaya|And it is not necessary to say that women only can instruct the girls and men only can instruct the boys, not when they are so young. At twelve years, they may be initiated.]] —Caya dasi, 16 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720228_satyabhama|Not that we shall give them many games for playing, these so-called scientific methods of learning are artificial, unnecessary, and on the whole I do not have much trust in this Montessori system or any other such system of teaching.]] —Satyabhama, 28 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720307_aniruddha]] —Aniruddha, 7 March, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720412_giriraja|Try to introduce immediately Krsna consciousness instruction to the students through English medium.]] —Giriraja, 12 April, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720613_stokakrsna|Yes, the proof of your teaching method shall be seen in the spiritual improvement and fresh enthusiasm exhibited by the children.]] —Stoka Kṛṣṇa, 13 June, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720616_satsvarupa|So far the children are concerned they should know simply four things: 1. Simply think of Krsna always, 2. become Krsna's devotee, 3. offer Krsna worship, 4. offer Krsna obeisances.]] —Satsvarupa, 16 June, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720616_satsvarupa|The women are best for teaching small children, especially if they are themselves mothers, and when they become brahmacaris at five or six years old then they may be instructed by the men. If Stoka Krsna is finding difficulty to manage things then...]] —Satsvarupa, 16 June, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720730_giriraja|teach the small children to play Krsna games: one child is a cow, another is cowherds boy, they go to the forest, there are demons there, Krsna kills the demons, like that;]] —Giriraja, 30 July, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720913_yadubara|I have just returned from Dallas gurukula school, and the young students there require to learn Sanskrit language.]] —Yadubara, 13 September, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721118_rupa_vilasa|children should not be beaten at all, that I have told. They should be shown the stick strongly. So if one cannot manage in that way then he is not fit as teacher.]] —Bhanutanya dasi, 18 November, 1972 --- ![[letters/1973/730104_sama_sammita|So far Geography and History are concerned, you may teach Geography as it is, there is no harm]] —Dinatarini dasi, 4 January, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/730419_satsvarupa|I just want that the children learn English and Sanskrit nicely, that's all. I want that things go on there nicely, it is so important work.]] —Satsvarupa Maharaja, 19 April, 1973 --- ![[letters/1974/740720_suchitra|I understand that you are the mother of the little boy Purnima dasa. He is very nice boy. He is Vaisnava. So you are very fortunate to have such a son. You can take it that Krsna has given you this son. So you must take care of him nicely and rais...]] —Sucitra devi dasi, 20 July, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740819_sridhara|The information is there in my books so if you strictly adhere to them then your program of teaching will be successful.]] —Hiranyagarbha dasa, 19 August, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740903_rsabhadeva|You may introduce contests, but if the children and also the older devotees cannot pronounce Sanskrit correctly, it is all a useless waste of time.]] —Aksobhya dasa, 3 September, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750202_sahadeva|Your study aids that you are using to help the children learn the meaning of Bhagavad-gita slokas fully seem to he all right. The thing is, you must see that the meaning of the verse is in no way altered or changed. Simplification is all right but...]] —Dayananda dasa, 2 February, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750514_yadunandana|the children should immediately be allowed to chant on their japa beads.]] —Yadunandana, 14 May, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750928_prem_j._batra._batra._batra|It is nice that you have started the Sri Rupanuga Vidyapitha Library and that you are teaching the boys at the gurukula Sanskrit. You can do it. You have got the capacity. Now do it. You may send me a copy of the examination and what were the resu...]] —Pradyumna dasa, 28 September, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751120_ghanasyama|Regarding your use of manpower in the Texas gurukula, that is very good what you are doing now. There should not be more than twelve students for one teacher. This is tutorial system.]] —Jagadisa dasa, 20 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760106_aksayananda.c._kapur|Study of the Vedas is not meant for children.]] —Aksayananda Maharaja, 6 January, 1976 --- ## Discipline ![[letters/1972/720412_niranjana|So far my chastising you at Mayapur for your questions it is simply out of love that I chastise any of my students.]] —Niranjana, 12 April, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720515_giriraja|Obedience is the first law of discipline.]] —Giriraja, 15 May, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721118_rupa_vilasa|children should not be beaten at all, that I have told. They should be shown the stick strongly. So if one cannot manage in that way then he is not fit as teacher.]] —Bhanutanya dasi, 18 November, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721118_rupa_vilasa|You may show the stick, threaten, but better art is to somehow or other, even by tricking them, avoid this matter of force and induce them to obey out of loving spirit.]] —Rupa-vilasa, 18 November, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721210_brahmanya_tirtha|if they become naughty we may show the stick but we should never use it. Child is nonsense, so you can trick him to obey you by making some little story and the child will become cheated in the proper behavior. But never apply force,]] —Brahmanya Tirtha, 10 December, 1972 --- ![[letters/1974/740510_jagadisa|If they cannot rise early, why should you take care of such young ones at gurukula?]] —Jagadisa, 10 May, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750514_yadunandana|I have just been informed by my servant, Srutakirti, that the young children, under twelve, are not allowed to use their japa beads while chanting. This policy is not good.]] —Yadunandana, 14 May, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760109_vishambhar|sometimes pressure is required, especially when one is not so advanced. Of course it has to be applied properly, otherwise there may be some bad taste. But spontaneous service can only be expected from advanced devotees. Just like a child by press...]] —Tusta Kṛṣṇa Maharaja, 9 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/761126_all_temples|If you pat your subordinates it will increase their faulty habits and if you chastise them, they will improve. Therefore it is advised that either your son or disciple, you should always chastise them, never give them leniency.]] —all temples, 26 November, 1976 --- ## Brahmacari, Asrama ![[letters/1967/670228_rayarama|a brahmacari should not see any kind of naked picture. That is violation of brahmacari law.]] —Rayarama, 28 February, 1967 --- ![[letters/1967/670413_kirtanananda|In India the brahmacaris are meant for begging from door to door for the spiritual master. But in your country the activity is not allowed, therefore some devices like selling the publications, recruiting members, inviting them to our meetings and...]] —Kīrtanānanda, 13 April, 1967 --- ![[letters/1967/671113_gargamuni|If one is serious to make any success in the matter of Krsna consciousness one should avoid the association of women as far as possible.]] —Gargamuni, 13 November, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680614_himavati|If it is possible to divert the attention for Krsna's service it is quite possible to remain single even for the whole life.]] —Himavati, 14 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680628_brahmananda|according to Vedic principles, only the brahmacari, the vanaprasthas, and the sannyasis are recommended to take to Krsna consciousness seriously or to get free from the problem of earning money.]] —Brahmananda, 28 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680918_sivananda|The brahmacaris, vanaprastha, and sannyasis are not supposed to earn money like grhasthas.]] —Sivananda, 18 September, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690201_upendra|I am pleased by your wish to remain as brahmacari, and if you stick to your decision you will be able to go back home, back to Godhead,]] —Upendra, 1 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690208_hrsikesa|this is very important that we remain very firm in our vow of brahmacari,]] —Hrsikesa, 8 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690318_hayagriva|So far the brahmacaris, you cannot check the association with householders. But their living should be separate.]] —Hayagriva, 18 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690521_sivananda|if you can continue as a brahmacari then you can avoid so much botherations of worldly life.]] —Sivananda, 21 May, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690610_madhudvisa|an intelligent person rather suffers the pain of itching sensation than accepting the after effects of satisfying the itch. In India, therefore there are many akanda brahmacaris, and my Guru Maharaja was the best brahmacari.]] —Madhudvisa, 10 June, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690629_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 29 June, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690705_sacisuta|Another principle is that those who are brahmacaris should sacrifice all of their income and collection for the Krsna consciousness movement,]] —Sacisuta, 5 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690705_giriraja|Actually a brahmacari should contribute whatever he has got to Krsna, through the spiritual master. The spiritual master does not accept anything for his personal use,]] —Giriraja, 5 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690708_bhurijana|If one is able to remain as brahmacari that is first-class because so much botheration of household life is immediately avoided.]] —Bhurijana, 8 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691102_hayagriva_vamanadeva_pradyumna|Generally if one can remain a brahmacari, it is very convenient, and from brahmacari one can take sannyasa.]] —Mandali Bhadra, 2 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691126_aniruddha]] —Gopala Kṛṣṇa, 26 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700202_sumati_morarjee|My open advice is that if anyone can remain a brahmacari, it is very nice, but there is no need of artificial brahmacaris.]] —Lalita Kumara, 2 February, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700211_balmukundji_parikh|According to our sastras, the brahmacaris, the vanaprasthas and the sannyasis are allowed to collect alms and are considered to be as the children of the society which is composed of householders.]] —Balmukundji Parikh, 11 February, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700307_trivikrama]] —Trivikrama, 7 March, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700624_upendra|if each of us follow the regulative principles and chanting of the mantras hardly there will be any chance for sex indulgence. So we have to be a little careful about it and Krsna will help us.]] —Upendra, 24 June, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700916_yamuna|Regarding your program of duties for the brahmacaris and brahmacarinis and grhastha men and women, this is a very nice arrangement. The girls should manage internally and the boys should manage externally. So all of you have my hearty blessings fo...]] —Yamuna, 16 September, 1970 --- ![[letters/1972/720120_sri_govinda|brahmacari life or celibacy is better, because if the semina is saved it fertilizes the brain for sharpening the memory, and if there is good memory, our Krsna consciousness becomes perfect:]] —Sri Govinda dasa, 20 January, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720921_visala|my best advice to you is that you remain like Narada Muni, the perfect brahmacari, loitering all over the universe and chanting the Lord's name.]] —Visala dasa, 21 September, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720930_sankarsana|brahmacari should always address every woman as mother. In your country it is a little difficult, but the principle is to avoid. To talk secretly or privately is strictly prohibited.]] —Sankarsana, 30 September, 1972 --- ![[letters/1974/741229_vijayadvaja|work nicely with Mr. Punja and take charge of the preaching, kirtanas, prasadam and book distribution programs. This is actually the work for a brahmacari. If you absorb yourself in this work you will feel very blissful.]] —Vijayadvaja, 29 December, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750104_nrsimha_dasa]] —Hiranyagarbha dasa, 4 January, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750904_gatravan|The brahmacaris and sannyasis must stick to the temple activities. Only the grhasthas can take part in the restaurant. Our aim should not be to work for profit.]] —Paramahamsa Swami, 4 September, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750929_gargamuni|It is the duty of the male members to be very steady and cautious. This can be done by regular chanting like Haridasa Thakura did.]] —Gargamuni Swami, 29 September, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/751231_madhudvisa|If one can remain brahmacari that is best. Finish this life and go back to Godhead, that is the basic idea of Krsna consciousness movement. So you decide.]] —Mahavisnu dasa, 31 December, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/761208_dr._suresh_candra._suresh_candra._suresh_candra|course marriage is not prohibited in devotional service, but if one can remain brahmacari, in unmarried life, it is a great facility.]] —Dr. Suresh Candra, 8 December, 1976 --- ## Parents and Gurukula ![[letters/1973/731208_madhudvisa|I have met your son. His lovely features are very nice and he appears to be a first-class brahmacari. Always be an example to him by being steadfast in Krsna consciousness and your motherhood will be perfected.]] —Kadamba dd, 8 December, 1973 --- ![[letters/1976/760122_jagadisa|Before having a child the parents should see whether they shall be able to pay for their child's education. The GBC should make an injunction that if they beget children, then whatever the expenses are for supporting gurukula they must pay for it.]] —Jagadisa, 22 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760221_gabhira|The best thing is to send your daughter to gurukula, but if you cannot do that, then somehow see that she is trained nicely in Krsna consciousness.]] —Maeve Davies, 21 February, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760304_parent|at least for the time being, you must arrange to pay the tuition for your child. If you like, you can get my books and sell them and you can pay tuition in that way.]] —Parent, 4 March, 1976 --- --- **[← Back to Śikṣāmṛta](wiki/compile/siksamrita)**