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| <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> | | <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> |
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| <div class="heading">Because we practically see, all the college students are hippies. Irresponsible vagabonds. If she wants her son to become like that, that is different thing. Irresponsible vagabonds, that is the present status of this country. The majority of the students, they are becoming irresponsible vagabonds. Is it not? | | <div class="heading">Because we practically see, all the college students are hippies. Irresponsible vagabonds. If she wants her son to become like that, that is different thing. Irresponsible vagabonds, that is the present status of this country. The majority of the students, they are becoming irresponsible vagabonds. Is it not? |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource: Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York|Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. Jaya. </p> | | |
| <p>Devotee (5): Śrīla Prabhupāda? I am one of the teachers in the gurukula...</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Ahh.</p>
| | <mp3player>https://vanipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/clip/720704R1-NEW_YORK_clip002.mp3</mp3player> |
| <p>Devotee (5): ...and one of the boys, Ekendra, his mother, Kalindi, she wants to take him away from the school.</p>
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource: 720704_- _Conversation_A_- _New_York|Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. ''Jaya''. |
| <p>Devotee (5): She wants to take him away from the school. So she's leaving it up to you, to your decision, as to whether the boy goes with her or stays in the gurukula school. He's progressing very nicely at gurukula. The school is just starting. He's very intelligent boy.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: So why he is taking? Why she is taking?</p>
| | Devotee (5): Śrīla Prabhupāda? I am one of the teachers in the Gurukula . . . |
| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Kalindi wants..., likes to take Ekendra.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Why?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Ahh. |
| <p>Devotee (5): She's very attached.</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Attached.</p>
| | Devotee (5): . . . and one of the boys, Ekendra, his mother, Kalindi, she wants to take him away from the school. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. So she's mother. If she wants to take, what can you do? She doesn't like her son to be Kṛṣṇa conscious, what you can do? Where she is?</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: She's here, actually. She is serving Your Divine Grace.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Huh? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Hmm?</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: She is serving, but she is not sure if that would be the best thing. She's attached, maybe...</p>
| | Devotee (5): She wants to take him away from the school. So she's leaving it up to you, to your decision, as to whether the boy goes with her or stays in the Gurukula school. He's progressing very nicely at Gurukula. The school is just starting. He's very intelligent boy. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: So you convince her that ordinary schools, going, there are so many ordinary schools and students, where the students are coming out useless hippies. Do you like to have your son to become hip..., which are hippies? Ask on this point.</p>
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| <p>Devotee (5): Jaya Prabhupāda.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: So why he is taking? Why she is taking? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Because we practically see, all the college students are hippies. Irresponsible vagabonds. If she wants her son to become like that, that is different thing. Irresponsible vagabonds, that is the present status of this country. The majority of the students, they are becoming irresponsible vagabonds. Is it not?</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes, correct. We all have experience in that.</p>
| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Kalindi wants . . . likes to take Ekendra. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, if she, if she wants son to become irresponsible, irresponsible vagabond, in the association... Of course, our Dallas also we should take very much care so that we may not also produce irresponsible vagabond. So don't cause irresponsible vagabonds.</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Śrīla Prabhupāda, what are your instructions to the parent..., to the teachers as to how they treat parents? I have heard several parents sometimes complain that..., that they don't get enough news about their children from the teachers. Should teacher let the parents know about the children?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Why? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: So our, the small children teaching...</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes.</p>
| | Devotee (5): She's very attached. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: ...means they should learn alphabet.</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes.</p>
| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Attached. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: How to read and write. That is the first thing.</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: That's all right. So she's mother. If she wants to take, what can I do? She doesn't like her son to be Kṛṣṇa conscious? Where she is? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: And balance they should learn how to become Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: Jaya!</p>
| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: She's here, actually. She is serving Your Divine Grace. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: That's all.</p>
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| <p>Ātreya Ṛṣi: And we let the parents know how the children is progressing? Do we have responsibility to parents, to let them know, inform them about the progress of children?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Hmm? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: No, we have no time for such talk. If he, he or she can come and see. We have no such. That is ordinary school.</p>
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| <p>Devotee: Jaya.</p>
| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: She is serving, but she is not sure if that would be the best thing. She's attached. Maybe . . . |
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| | Prabhupāda: So you convince her that ordinary schools going, there are so many ordinary schools and students, where the students are coming out useless hippies. "Do you like to have your son to become hip . . . which are hippies?" Ask her this question. |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: ''Jaya'' Prabhupāda. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Because we practically see, all the college students are hippies. Irresponsible vagabonds. If she wants her son to become like that, that is different thing. Irresponsible vagabonds, that is the present status of this country. The majority of the students, they are becoming irresponsible vagabonds. Is it not? |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes, correct. We all have experience in that, Prabhupāda. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes, if she, if she wants son to become irresponsible, irresponsible vagabond, in the association . . . of course, our Dallas also we should take very much care so that we may not also produce irresponsible vagabond. We don't want irresponsible vagabonds. |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Śrīla Prabhupāda, what are your instructions to the parent . . . to the teachers as to how they treat parents? I have heard several parents sometimes complain that . . . that they don't get enough news about their children from the teachers. Should teacher let the parents know about the children? |
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| | Prabhupāda: So our, the small children teaching . . . |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. |
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| | Prabhupāda: . . . means they should learn alphabet. |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. |
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| | Prabhupāda: How to read and write. That is the first thing. |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. |
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| | Prabhupāda: And balance, they should learn how to become Vaiṣṇava. |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: ''Jaya!'' |
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| | Prabhupāda: That's all. |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: And we let the parents know how the children is progressing? Do we have responsibility to parents, to let them know, inform them about the progress of children? |
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| | Prabhupāda: Oh, we have no time for such talk. If he, he or she can come and see. We have no such. That is ordinary school. |
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| | Ātreya Ṛṣi: ''Jaya''. |
