Maintain institutional purity over governmental compromise; educate children as learned, devoted disciples.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: So people were inclined to send their children to gurukula. Now they are inclined to send their children to cinema, this, that... A difficult task to institute. Loafer class, they should be trained up as śūdras—in carpentry, in weaving.
It doesn't..., do not require academic education. Simply make a skill. They'll learn. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We're not after the loafer class. Prabhupāda: No, no. They are not...
They are also useful. But they are... Bringing them to the education, university, they are becoming loafer, ironclad. As soon as these low-class men are given education, he thinks, "Now I have become educated, baḍa bāpu.
Why shall I work as a carpenter? I must have table chair." And they're bribing in government office, and sixty percent of the clerks—useless. They do not know how to make file, cumberous. Because everyone is going to New Delhi.
And all fourth-class men are admitted. I have seen. If you have to find out an old file, you have to wait six months. Because these people are neither for this purpose nor that purpose. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: I was thinking, Śrīla Prabhupāda, we should get this gurukula accepted by the government also so...
Prabhupāda: No, no, no. Never do that. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No, when our gurukula children apply for entry visas, they should give them visas right away, because these kids from abroad will come to India for gurukula... Prabhupāda: Our program is open. Brahmacārī gurukule vasan dāntaḥ [SB 7.12.1]. We are training like this, according to the Bhāgavata.
That's all. Never mind government. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: If you get accepted by the government, you may have to change your curriculum so much. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No, I mean, just this is a Vaiṣṇava institute, so when our students apply abroad for an entry visa, they'll get it right away, and they can get a student visa for four, five years. I don't think the gurukula kids come from abroad and then train them, six, you know... Prabhupāda: No, no, the parents are prepared to pick up the expense. That's all.