Prahlāda Mahārāja recommends, kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān. Children, kaumāra . . . kaumāra means from fifth year to the fifteenth year. These ten years, the boys and girls, especially boys, they should be instructed about religion. Now our government is secular. There is no question of teaching the children about religion, dharmān. Because dharmeṇa hīnāḥ paśubhiḥ samānāḥ (Hitopadeśa). If you don't teach your children from the beginning of life about religion, then you are creating so many animals. Dharmeṇa hīnāḥ paśubhiḥ samānāḥ. Not only here, everywhere, the whole world, they are . . . their universities are producing some animals, that's all. Therefore there is so much chaos and confusion all over the world. Varṇa-saṅkara.
So if you want to be happy really, if you want to make your life successful, human life, then you have to take this principle of mayy āsakta manāḥ. You have to increase your attachment for Kṛṣṇa. This is the meaning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. It is not a sectarian religion; it is the fact. Unless the human society take to this principle of increasing their attachment . . . we have got . . . at last, we increase our attachment for dogs and cats. So attachment is there. Now this attachment has to be employed on Kṛṣṇa.
That yoga system, kṛṣṇa-yoga system, is described in this Bhagavad-gītā, Seventh Chapter: mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ, asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ mām (BG 7.1). Asaṁśayam, "Without any doubt." In any other process, you cannot understand what is God in full sense. That is not possible. By speculating process . . . there are so many speculators, theosophist, theologist, philosopher, Māyāvādī. They are speculating about God by . . . but that, by that process, by speculative process, you cannot understand God. That is not possible. Panthās tu . . . it is stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā:
- panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo
- vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānām
- so 'py asti yat prapada-sīmny avicintya-tattve . . .
- (Bs. 5.34)
If you want to know Kṛṣṇa, or God, by the speculative process, not only for one year, two year . . . panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo vāyor athāpi. Not mental speculation, but on the aeroplane running on the speed of vāyu, or air, or mind, the speed of mind—still, by traversing many crores of years, you cannot reach. Still it . . . it remains avicintya, inconceivable. But if you take to the process of this kṛṣṇa-yoga, or bhakti-yoga, then you can become aware of Kṛṣṇa very easily.