Train children to enter Krishna's eternal family, not merely to survive in this false, temporary material existence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — March 3, 1975, Dallas 750303LE-DALLAS [22:27 Minutes] Lecture_750303LE-DALLAS Prabhupāda: ...future [indistinct]. Prahlāda Mahārāja wanted this. This Dallas temple, Dallas, this educational institution, must be unique in the world, because nobody is interested to give their children spiritual education. When I first attempted to start this movement from India, I approached many friends, that "You have got four children or five children.
Give me one child. I shall train him as brāhmaṇa and Vaiṣṇava." Nobody agreed. Everyone said, "Swāmījī, what will be the benfit by becoming brāhmaṇa? After all, he has to struggle for existence.
Nobody cares for brāhmaṇa." That is also a fact. Nobody is nowadays interested about the brahminical culture. We are trying to push this brahminical culture within the demoniac culture. It is very difficult task, but still, by grace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, we are more or less successful.
I am very glad to see your temple worship, not only here; everywhere. So you American boys and girls, you are fortunate that this movement is started from America, and some of you are taking seriously, trying to help me. So I am very much obliged to you. So keep this standard as you are now keeping, then things will go automatically, and one day people will understand in the history that this movement was for saving the human society.
That day will come. So I am very much pleased to see the atmosphere here. Education means Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is education. If simply we understand that "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Person.
He is great, and we are all subordinate. So our duty is to serve Kṛṣṇa," these two lines, if we understand, then our life is perfect. If we simply learn how to worship Kṛṣṇa, how to please Him, how to dress Him nicely, how to give Him nice foodstuff, how to decorate Him with ornaments and flowers, how to offer our respectful obeisances unto Him, how to chant His name, in this way, if we simply think, without any so-called education we become the perfect person within the universe. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
It doesn't require A-B-C-D education. It requires simply change of consciousness. So if these children are being taught from the very beginning of their life... We had the opportunity of being trained up by our parents like this. So some way or other, they have come to this...