HIGHER EDUCATION
Higher education is meant for training preachers.
The world has enough technologists. Therefore, there is a need to train brahmanas and vaisnavas.
Every center should establish a varnasrama college and engage people in spiritual activities according to their nature.
Krsna conscious higher education will attract unlimited numbers of students from higher class Indian families.
We should give degrees in affiliation with a nearby university to qualify persons for an academic career.
Letter to: Kirtanananda : 69-01-12
So you have now taken charge of the sunrise of New Vrindaban. Our program is there for constructing seven temples. One Rupanuga Vidyapitha--that is a school for educating brahmanas and Vaisnavas. We have enough of technological and other types of educational institutions, but perhaps there is none where actual brahmanas and Vaisnavas are produced. So we will have to establish an educational institution for that purpose.
Letter to: Tamala and Gurudasa : 71-08-23
The aim is to make it an international institute for taking perfect spiritual order of life; we shall give titles like bachelor of divinity, master of divinity, doctor of divinity. Besides that as I have already told you all several times in India, respectable gentlemen want to educate their children through the English medium. If we can organize such an institution such as Bombay and we can give them instruction through the English medium and raise them in a Krishna Conscious culture we shall get unlimited number of students from respectable families of India.
Letter to: Tusta Krsna Swami : 75-11-09
Your idea for the scholastic institution as discussed with you and Siddha Svarupa Maharaja is a very good idea. Now we have got so many books--almost 50 books of 400 pages--so this institution can be affiliated with some nearby university. Then the students will get their degrees of Bachelors and Post Graduates PHD. We have enough matter to qualify a person in academic career. At least we can offer the degree of DD--Doctor of Divinity by affiliating ourselves with some neighboring recognized university.
Morning Walk Vrindaban, March 12, 1974
Prabhupada: ...it will be constituted, that. Their business will be to exploit the poor citizens. And they will be embarrassed and harassed so much: by one side, no sufficient rain, and therefore scarcity of food, and the other side, taxation by the government. In this way, the people will be so much harassed that they'll give up their home and go to the forest. Very piti... Unless they take to Krsna consciousness, they'll not be saved. The varnasrama college has to be established immediately. Everywhere, wherever we have got our center, a varnasrama college should be established to train four divisions: one class, brahmana; one class, ksatriya; one class, vaisya; and one class, sudra. But everyone will be elevated to the spiritual platform by the spiritual activities which we have prescribed.
Letter to: Aniruddha : 69-02-04
The world needs this consciousness of Krishna, and we have to manufacture many preachers for this purpose. I wish that you can also take the responsibility of teaching staff when we actually open our theological school in New Vrindaban.
The world has enough technologists. Therefore, there is a need to train brahmanas and vaisnavas.
Every center should establish a varnasrama college and engage people in spiritual activities according to their nature.
Krsna conscious higher education will attract unlimited numbers of students from higher class Indian families.
We should give degrees in affiliation with a nearby university to qualify persons for an academic career.
Letter to: Kirtanananda : 69-01-12
So you have now taken charge of the sunrise of New Vrindaban. Our program is there for constructing seven temples. One Rupanuga Vidyapitha--that is a school for educating brahmanas and Vaisnavas. We have enough of technological and other types of educational institutions, but perhaps there is none where actual brahmanas and Vaisnavas are produced. So we will have to establish an educational institution for that purpose.
Letter to: Tamala and Gurudasa : 71-08-23
The aim is to make it an international institute for taking perfect spiritual order of life; we shall give titles like bachelor of divinity, master of divinity, doctor of divinity. Besides that as I have already told you all several times in India, respectable gentlemen want to educate their children through the English medium. If we can organize such an institution such as Bombay and we can give them instruction through the English medium and raise them in a Krishna Conscious culture we shall get unlimited number of students from respectable families of India.
Letter to: Tusta Krsna Swami : 75-11-09
Your idea for the scholastic institution as discussed with you and Siddha Svarupa Maharaja is a very good idea. Now we have got so many books--almost 50 books of 400 pages--so this institution can be affiliated with some nearby university. Then the students will get their degrees of Bachelors and Post Graduates PHD. We have enough matter to qualify a person in academic career. At least we can offer the degree of DD--Doctor of Divinity by affiliating ourselves with some neighboring recognized university.
Morning Walk Vrindaban, March 12, 1974
Prabhupada: ...it will be constituted, that. Their business will be to exploit the poor citizens. And they will be embarrassed and harassed so much: by one side, no sufficient rain, and therefore scarcity of food, and the other side, taxation by the government. In this way, the people will be so much harassed that they'll give up their home and go to the forest. Very piti... Unless they take to Krsna consciousness, they'll not be saved. The varnasrama college has to be established immediately. Everywhere, wherever we have got our center, a varnasrama college should be established to train four divisions: one class, brahmana; one class, ksatriya; one class, vaisya; and one class, sudra. But everyone will be elevated to the spiritual platform by the spiritual activities which we have prescribed.
Letter to: Aniruddha : 69-02-04
The world needs this consciousness of Krishna, and we have to manufacture many preachers for this purpose. I wish that you can also take the responsibility of teaching staff when we actually open our theological school in New Vrindaban.
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