Why I don’t Send my

Child to School?
Preface

I do not send my child, Mukunda, to

conventional school but teach him a Vedic
lifestyle under a gurukula setup. Many
people ask me why I do not send him to
school and become surprised at this as if I
am committing some grave offense or
criminal act or am a very cruel father to
Mukunda. I am writing this booklet as a
solid logical answer to this question. Aim
behind this book is to enable parents, who
are un-schooling their child to make them
study under Vedic Gurukula setup, with
proper logical arguments to counteract
devotees, relatives, as well as others who
constantly harass them and also to make
their conviction more strong and thus make
them fearless. Although this is the aim of
this booklet, this booklet is not written in a
sentimental mode but is well referenced and
anyone who wants can come to me and
discuss things in detail. The format of this
book is in the form of a hypothetical
conversation between a school principal
and me. The content of this conversation
has been selected based on the practical
conversations that I had with many of the
officials of this field and also with different
parents and their relatives. The
explanations in this booklet, which makes
the real content, are based on the teachings
of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada, founder acharya of the
International Society of Krishna
Consciousness, who has the plan to
revolutionalize the whole world by helping
it in its darkest times of social, economic,
political and ultimately spiritual crisis. He
saw that the root cause of all the problems
of this world is lack of the knowledge of
difference between body and soul. Thus he
has brought the age old education system
into practice in the name of gurukula
system to educate our next generation in
this unique and inevitable knowledge and
character. This doesn’t mean that social,
economic, and political aspects are
neglected. But he has very elaborately and
perfectly planned the social, economic, and
political system that can stay stable for
millenniums together without much
problem. This system is also age old system
that is time tested in India and all over the
world and that is mentioned in age old
Bhagavad-gita. This book is thus dedicated
to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada, the founder acharya of
the International Society of Krishna
Consciousness. Then I dedicate it to my
Guru Maharaja, Sripada Bhakti Vikasa
Swami, who has fully guided and inspired us
on this path and convinced us for this
mammoth task of re-establishing old Vedic
education system as an alternative for
modern McCauley school system.

—Nartaka Gauranga Das

Contents

1. Do you know that you can be legally

punished if you don’t send your child
to school?
2. Why do you not want to send your
child to school? – The reason of bad
character infection
3. But what about his livelihood? After
all life is not lived just by good
character
4. But who will marry your son or
daughter?
5. You won’t give knowledge of science
etc. so the child will remain a fool
and backward in terms of knowledge,
isn’t it?
6. What if the child is attracted by
modern world and wants to leave
 your community and live a normal
modern life?
7. You said that you will teach farming
from childhood. Then you can be
sued for Child Labor, isn’t it?
8. Conclusion
Conversation:

Principal: Mr.Nartaka Das. I am principal

from a school nearby to your house. It is my
legal duty to ensure that all the children
living in my school’s vicinity and who are
between 6 to 14 years of age are attending
some or other school. Thus I have come to
you as a part of my duty, please don’t
misunderstand me. I came to know that
your child, Mukunda, is not attending
school. What age is he?

Nartaka Gauranga Das (NGD): Mukunda is

7 years old.

Principal: Okay. Mr.Nartaka, do you know

that there is a law called Right to Education
Act (RTE Act) according to which it is not
proper to not send your child to school
education and you may be legally punished
for this?

NGD: Yes, I do know this law. I agree with

you that RTE Act states it improper to not
send to school child between 6 to 14 years of
age. But I do not agree with your statement
that parents or guardians who do not send
their child to school are legally punishable.
The RTE Act imposes a compulsion for free
education on government to make all
arrangements so as to be able to provide free
education to children between 6 to 14 years
of age all over India. This includes
infrastructural arrangements, teaching
arrangements, recruiting and training
teachers for this purpose, arranging for
funds, and educating parents to send their
child to school. But it doesn’t put any
compulsion on parents who do not want to
send their child to school in spite of
availability of free education at nearby
school. It is totally a right of parent to select
where and which type of education he will
select for his child.

Principal: RTE Act, Clause no.10 says that

it is the duty of parents to send their
children to nearby school. According to this
you may be legally punished.

NGD: Respected sir, it is not so.

Clarification of this clause is given by
Ministry of Human Resources and
Development (MHRD) in its RTE Rules
Clarification Document ver_01, that it is
not a compulsion on parents to send their
child to school and they are not punishable.
It is stated there that previously they

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thought to make it a compulsion for parents
and keep some punishment but ultimately
after exhaustive survey and discussions they
came to conclusion that it is not possible
neither human to do so. Moreover, the word
used in Clause no.10 of RTE Act is ‘duty’
which in and of itself means it is not
compulsion and not punishable if someone
is not exercising that duty.

Principal: Okay, I understand. But do you

not think that not sending your child to
school you are hampering the mission and
welfare of India that Indian Government
has taken into hands through RTE Act – to
educate all Indians?

NGD: I also accept that all Indians must be

educated. But I do not accept that the only
means of education is school. Even in
original Right to Education law in
International Human Rights Association
the word ‘education’ is used as compulsory
and not ‘schooling.’ If you see the full
document then you find that it does allow
parents to select the type of education they
want for their child. Majority of advanced
nations like US has kept education as
compulsory and not schooling. But in India
RTE Act is making schooling compulsory
and that may not be proper. I am not
keeping my child uneducated but I am
selecting the type of education I feel better
for my child’s future.

Principal: Okay. I am somewhat satisfied by

your answer. But I want to know the reasons
due to which you do not feel present schools
proper for your child’s better future.
NGD: Yes. I see that majority of children
who study in schools become characterless.
They learn to mix freely with girls and flirt
with them, they learn smoking, they learn
to drink, have sex before marriage, watch
television, misuse facebook, internet, and
other sources like whatsapp which make
them all the time fully submerged into the
thoughts of having sex with opposite party.
I practically see that majority of them
connect to sex even the things and
incidents otherwise in no way connected to
sex. Moreover they become more violent
and irresponsible. Also they do not want to
stay with their parents thinking that
parents are very much an obstacle in
satisfying their desires. Majority of them
have their girlfriends or boyfriends and they
regularly have dates with them. The
children who are coming out of schools and
colleges are very bad couples and thus
divorce is very much inevitable. Basically
they are trained in thinking of their own
welfare and sense gratification, not
austerity and tolerance. In short they
become lower than animals. I am not saying
that everyone becomes like that but I am
seeing majority of them become like that.
And this type of lifestyle is encouraged in
colleges and schools – I remember that if
someone doesn’t want to see towards girls
and flirt with them then his colleagues
make fun of him and put social pressure on
him to become misbehaved like them. I
have seen in front of my eyes many boys
and girls who came quite well behaved from
their houses but in a couple of years became
complete debauchee being forced by their
colleagues and seniors. Thus I do not want
to see my child becoming one of them. Tell
me what I have said is not correct?

Principal: Yes, it is unfortunately correct

and we are trying to figure out how this
pollution can be stopped. But then everyone
has to live in this world with its good and
bad things together. You cannot live in
utopian thinking that everything is alright.
School education has so many good aspects
also and this one bad aspect is also there. So
we should live with it and try to take
benefit of its good aspect. At least it
prepares your child to get his livelihood –
after all everyone has to earn something to
eat and sleep and thus maintain body. So if
you do not send your child to school what
you will do about his livelihood? Life cannot
be lived just by good character.
NGD: Please tell me what is the guarantee
that if he studies in modern education
system through schools and colleges he will
get a proper livelihood?

Principal: we are seeing that so many youths

are getting proper jobs, salary, and are living
successfully.

NGD: No, that is not a fact. See the

unemployment list; so many educated youth
are unemployed. Moreover, we can see that
modern system of economy is based on
competition which means that if I have to
survive then I have to put my feet over your
head. There are IIT exams in which success
rate is only 0.1 percent. For jobs there is one
post and 500 applications and if you outdo
others then only you get job. Majority of
people are not so bright and so they remain
jobless, giving way to ‘big fishes’ who can
compete. Also another factor is that if you
have more money you can compete better
and this gives rise to corruption. The
number of people applying for same post is
increasing day by day. The post for which
500 people applied in the year 2000 has
increased to cater 5000 applications. Day by
day as more people are educated it is
becoming difficult to get jobs. The filtering
system by the means of competitive exams
also become more and more strict requiring
higher and higher qualification and thus a
person need to study for longer life getting
higher degrees as necessary for getting
livelihood. Today on an average you can
earn your livelihood by modern means if
you have studied about 25-30 years. For
these many years you are just an economic
burden or liability on society and parents.
Moreover, even if you get the job majority
of you have to work for about 10-14 hours a
day for whole year; and that too in much
anxiety. And the money you earn has to be
spent for so many otherwise unnecessary
things and thus very less savings. Also the
basic necessity of food that you get from this
is full of chemicals and is like poison for the
body. Also due to job and modern lifestyle
you cannot follow the healthy schedule and
practices – night shifts, working till late
night, etc. Due to these factors health is a
big issue nowadays and a significant part of
one’s income is spent on medical necessities.

Moreover, there is a big problem that is

hovering over modern society – complete
economic breakdown. Already many
economists have published much literature
on this matter2. Because the modern
economy is more or less based on paper
currency and not real commodities, there is
a lot of inflation; after all you cannot eat
Rs.500 note but need real chapattis and
rice. Also whatever reality is there in
economy is fully based on Crude Oil and it’s
marching its end3. Already the world has
peaked its Oil production in 2008 and now
the oil supply is reducing while its demand
is increasing. So there will be a total
economic crash in about 10-15 years from
now. There will be no electricity, no food,
water, etc. Industries will close. It is well
within future of my child. How my child
will get any livelihood in such a condition.
Don’t think this won’t happen – it already

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has happened in Cuba when her oil supply
was stopped in 1990s. Cuban government
took wise steps and made the country self-
sufficient based on farming and cow
protection within very less time4. This is
good example to see the effects of an oil
crashed system. Do you have any solution to
this crisis?

Principal: I am sure scientists will search out

alternative sources of energy and save the
world from this crisis. There are many
sources like solar energy is the major source
that may be tapped.

NGD: Sorry to say but it is a fact that right

now you do not have any solution neither
do you have any concrete thing in hand
that promises a solution in near future. It is

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just a wishful hope that the scientists will do
it in future. But all the evidence show that
there is no solution. And even if the
solution comes, by the time it is applied the
world economy would have crashed. After a
possible solution is discovered it takes at
least a few generations to implement it in
whole world replacing all old technology
with new ones and this process of replacing
itself requires a lot of energy which we do
not have. Thus by all logic and evidence it
is a fact that civilization is going to crash.

Due to all these reasons I do not feel that

my child’s future is economically secured if I
make him study in modern education
system.

Principal: Okay. I understand your concern

and I also agree that we have no solution.
But then you don’t have the solution either.
If the civilization crashes you are also going
to suffer even if you make your child study
in your system; what about that?

NGD: Economic stability means that you

have sufficient food to eat, a place to live
and sleep, and cloth to wear. You need to
eat rice, dal, wheat, vegetables etc. That you
can get by cultivating land and by keeping
cows you get your milk, curd, ghee etc. Bulls
till the land and produce grass for
themselves and produce all eating
necessities for you. Thus if one has 2-4
Acres of land, a few cows and bulls, then he
doesn’t need anyone else for his livelihood.
Thus land based economy is the most stable.
The economy that is not based on
agriculture and cow protection is just a false
illusory economy. You see that the people
who work in factories, or cities they also
have to depend on the produce from
agriculture and cow protection; after all you
cannot grow rice in factories and you
cannot eat nuts and bolts. But they do not
contribute in any way to agriculture.

Principal: They do contribute money in

return to the grains they take from farmers,
isn’t it?

NGD: They give paper money which

cannot be eaten or used in any way. In case
the farmers do not give their produce to
them then city dwellers will have to starve.
Farmer can say that he doesn’t want any
money. He is having land, cows and rain.
Money is not needed for these. So a farmer
is not in need of money. If you see, paper
money is not money but just a promise to
supply things worth the amount written on
it – this is written on the currency note if
you carefully see. So when there is
economic crash heaps of money will not
fetch even single bread. You can remember
what happened during the great depression
after the First World War.

Principal: Correct.

NGD: So according to our Vedic literatures

– gavaya dhanavan dhanyena dhanavan –
one is considered wealthy if he has cows and
grains. So this is real economy. This doesn’t
mean that in the society there will only be
farming. Economic need of the society is
majorly accomplished by farming. But in
economy itself one needs many other
services like potters to make pots, weavers
to make cloth, workers to support all
departments, masons for construction of
buildings, doctors for medical needs,
merchants to transfer some things to
different places where they do not grow and
bring those things that do not grow here,
Blacksmith, Goldsmith, etc. So there will be
other occupations also; but major is
agriculture. Also any society has, besides
economic needs, social, political,
educational, and spiritual needs. Without
fulfillment of spiritual need man is just like
animal because eating, sleeping, mating, and
defending are done by animals also, they are
also social. All other needs besides spiritual
need are material. There are sections like
kings and elders for political and social
needs. Besides that there are Brahmanas
and Sannyasis for educational and spiritual
needs of the society. The whole society runs
by mutual co-operation amongst these and
the economic basis is agriculture and cow
protection.

Previously a few villages together used to be

self-sufficient meaning that they provided
for all their necessities within themselves
and about 5-10 % of necessities that they
cannot provide for from there were fulfilled
by the means of trade with far places usually
carried by merchants. This is called local
living.

Thus I am seeing that if I make my child

study in this system he will get good
character by means of training in our Vedic
devotional lifestyle mentioned in sastras
and lived by our elders. Besides this by being
trained in one of the available occupations
he will easily be able to fulfill his economic
needs. Just by having economic needs
fulfilled he becomes at least equivalent to a
child studying for 35 years in your system.
The character that he achieves by being
trained in sastras is a bonus. Moreover he
will have very stable family life and matured
behavior in society due to being trained in
that way – not keeping lust as center but
service and obedience to seniors. And as
they are trained to be responsible to their
duty, they do not become criminals and thus
politically this system becomes easily
manageable. These all are not at all possible
in modern life style. Thus this is bonus.

The most important point is that in this

lifestyle my child will be a real human being
by getting chance to become a devotee and
thus finish the pangs of birth, death, old
age, and disease and go to the spiritual
world by associating with good devotees.
This is not at all in the agenda of modern
lifestyle but the opposite is its aim.

This is my planning for my child’s future

training. Do you have a better planning for
my child in any way?

Principal: The way you have explained, I

don’t think I have a better planning. It
sounds nice but this seems theoretical.
Great if you are able to do this. But we are
also trying to inculcate good character in
children, giving them stable economic
position, and all the things you are aiming.
But we are facing failures despite of all
sincere efforts. why do you think that you
will also not face the same failures?

NGD: Because you base your plans on your

tiny experience and brain not consulting
any Vedic literatures and age old time
tested Vedic wisdom. No matter how much
we try our intelligence and efforts are
always imperfect and thus prone to failures.
We are bound to make mistakes, our senses
are imperfect, we become illusioned, and we
have propensity to cheat. Due to these
faults we can’t have perfect knowledge. But
the Vedic system is perfect because it is
given by perfect person, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Krishna. If you see
from empirical view also, it is at least time
tested – for thousands of years people all
over the world lived happily by this system.
So because I base myself on this system I am
sure that I will be successful or at least there
are much more chances of success. For
instance, you do not want that there be
rapes in country; so you make many
legislations of punishment. But on the other
side you encourage co-education, exposing
of body by girls in public, free mixing of
girls and boys, watching films and TV that
are full of sex and violence stories,
educating them that controlling sex impulse
is harmful, etc. Now when the girl is out in
front of you wearing clothes that provocate
sexual desire, acting and talking in that
manner then how can you expect that you
will be able to control your sex impulse.
Once one get a sex impulse and is not
serious to control it, then he will not see
anything but have his desire fulfilled. They
you cry ‚why he is raping?‛ Thus by your
actions it is obvious that cases of rapes
should increase and it is a fact also. But in
our Vedic literatures it is clearly mentioned
– matra svasra duhitra van a viviktasano
bhaved, balavan indriyagramo
vidvamsamapi karsati – ‚Senses are very
powerful and thus even if one be a very
learned person, one should not sit in a
secluded place with any women even if she
is his mother, daughter, or sister.‛
Bhagavatam mentions that man is like
butter and woman is like fire; when they
come in contact butter will surely melt.
Thus we will train our children on this
principle and thus logically we have much
more chances to get success.

Principal: Okay. Today everyone wants an

educated girl or boy for marriage. So who
will give his daughter for your son or vice-
versa?

NGD: It is my responsibility to find a very

cultured wife for my son. I will do this. Only
those parents will give their girl, who have
trained her in chastity and thus the
marriage will stay life-long – no divorce.
She will not force my child to stay away
from us and will serve us. She will be
satisfied by taking care of children and thus
shaping a good future of our community.
There is no dearth of such girls; one just
needs to search for the right one.

Now I can compare my child’s married

condition if he is in today’s society. It may
be easier to find a match for him. But that is
not a match. First of all the girl that he will
get would have studied in colleges means
that there is almost guarantee that she is
not virgin. Moreover she will demand to
stay separate from us. As both of them are
trained in lust, there is a big possibility that
there will be divorce. So this puts us in the
same condition – no married life. Once
there is divorce there is a lot of disturbance
and if there is a child then his mentality is
also disturbed. So it is better to be not
married in modern society than getting
married. Moreover, in all of the above
actions heavy sinful reactions are accrued
which will harass us in future lives.

Thus seeing this, I feel it more secure to be

in Vedic setup for my child’s married status.

Principal: I feel that you are just collecting

good examples from Vedic setup and bad
examples from modern setup and then
comparing. This is not a fair comparison.
There are many good stable couples in
modern society also, and there were many
unstable marriages in Vedic setup also, isn’t
it?
NGD: Correct. But comparison is done not
on exceptions. If you calculate the trend of
married life in modern setup successful
marriages are not more than half. But if you
see in the old Vedic times the success rate
was almost every marriage, so much so that
there is no word for divorce in those
languages. I have not yet heard of even one
divorce in my grandfather’s generation.
Even if there were big fights among
husband and wife they lived together and
were happy. So it is not selective examples I
am taking but these numbers are a fact.

Principal: Okay. I understand. But I have

one request. You keep him in this Vedic
setup and train him as you have planned.
But you should teach him science, history,
etc. which have become quite advanced. If
you do not teach these then your child will
remain a fool without any knowledge of
material nature and its laws.

NGD: I don’t think so. If you speak of

knowledge of nature and its laws, that is
best taught in Vedic literatures. Please don’t
mind but frankly speaking, majority of what
modern education teaches in today’s schools
is just cheating. For instance in schools you
teach Darwin’s Evolutionary theory and
based on that the theory of Chemical origin
of life stating that life has come from
chemicals and that it is just a particular
combination of chemicals like DNA, RNA,
Chromosomes, Amino acids, etc. that
exhibits the symptoms of life. Thus there is
no such thing as soul and that there is no
punarjanma – life coming back after death,
and that thus all the considerations of sin
and piety our ancestors used to have is just
false and blind belief. But you have no solid
evidence behind this claim and when asked
‚have you ever created life from dead
matter without touch of any previous life‛
you run away from it saying ‚we will do it in
future.‛ You cannot prove it and still you go
on teaching it in text books. If life is just a
combination of chemicals then put some
chemical in dead body and make it alive. If
you will prove it later then teach it later.
One side you say ‚because we cannot prove
the existence of God so we do not teach it.‛
On the other side you teach evolutionary
theory which goes against all logic and you
teach it without sufficient evidence. Not
that only we are saying this; now there is a
whole group of dissatisfied scientists who
are protesting against evolutionary theory
and presenting Intelligent Design theory
based on all scientific evidence that
strongly suggests that there must be some
highly intelligent being who has designed
everything in the Universe. In NCERT text
books Mendel’s experiment on peas is still
used to explain how there can be speciation
but many decades ago it has already been
proved that by hybridization only the
existing traits mix and no new ones are
produced thus proving that there cannot be
speciation by hybridization. Still this
example is used. To me this seems to be
cheating. In archaeology there is sufficient
evidence available that proves that modern
man, homo sapien sapiens, existed even
2,000,000,000 years ago. But still it is taught
that it came into existence only 1,00,000-
2,00,000 years ago. I may not discuss all
these here, but you can read the book
Rethinking Darwin, Forbidden
Archaeology, Hidden History of Human
Race, Darwin’s Doubt, Darwin’s Black Box
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Besides cheating there is no proper

understanding about how and from where
this world comes into existence, who are we,
what happens after death, how to overcome
death, old-age and disease, how to achieve
happiness that never ends, etc. These are
real problems for all of us and every one of
us wants to solve these. But there is no
attempt to address these in modern
education. Thus I feel that there is no real
knowledge in modern education.

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Of course in our Vedic setup also we are
going teach children languages Hindi,
English, Sanskrit, and Gujarati. Besides this,
some very basic knowledge about math,
modern history, civics, and geography will
be given so that they do not look fool in the
society. Also some practical things like
buying or booking train tickets, dealings in
government offices, purchasing goods from
market, etc. will be taught. Computers will
also be taught but only to those students
who happen to go to stay in cities for
preaching Krishna Consciousness.

Principal: I will have to read the books you

have given to me in order to really accept
that we are cheating students. This is new
for me also. I have one more question. You
are not preparing your child in any way for
modern lifestyle and not giving him any
degree. What if after he becomes young he
becomes attracted by the luster of modern
world and wants to be a part of it? He will
not be able to gel into it and will curse you,
isn’t it?

NGD: I don’t think so. We are training him

in good character, sharp mind, healthy
body, and responsible personality. If he
chooses to be a part of modern society, he
still will have sufficient means to learn some
occupation and be a part of it. After all, you
can analyze how much of Indian population
is educated; still they are able to maintain
themselves in city setup also. You can also
see how many of very wealthy families are
educated – Dhirubhai Ambani was not
educated. In marwadi community it was a
trend to purposefully not send their child to
school so that they are able to earn more.
Same trend I saw in Goldsmiths of Gujarat.
Now another consideration is that even if
my child may go to modern society there are
all chances that he will become frustrated
after seeing the lusty and mean behavior of
people in this society, the exhaustive
schedule of work, characterless women, etc
and he will be forced to think to come back
to our community where things are
comparatively pure. It is to be remembered
here that my child would have gone to city
not out of his inability to earn livelihood
here. It is just out of hallucination that city
life will be better which is more likely to be
smashed easily by his experience. Then still
he can just start back his normal life in this
community – land is there, cows are there,
devotees are there.
But if I make him study in modern setup,
first of all he is spoiled in character,
thinking, etc. Moreover he is not given
sufficient physical work, pure food, and
healthy lifestyle needed to develop his body
for a Vedic lifestyle. He will usually be sick
and weak in body. His mind is not trained
in austerity and thus he will need all
artificial necessities like Air Conditioners,
Smart phones, etc. He is not trained in
celibacy and thus he will need prostitutes or
women other than his own wife. So
afterwards if he doesn’t like the city life and
wants to change to Vedic way of life
attracted by its benefits, he will not be able
to gel in this setup. Even if he tries hard he
cannot do much farming, neither any
physical work; he will have backaches and
what not. So then he will curse me and will
be forced to stay in the city setup he doesn’t
like. The difference is that by training in
Vedic way of life one doesn’t lose his
qualification to learn to earn livelihood in
city life also, but being trained in city life
one’s chances to later become absorbed in
Vedic economy become very less.

Principal: So you say that even if your child

may go to city he will come back as he will
not fit in modern setup. That means that
you are also forcing him to stay in village
setup you have created. How will he be
happy?

NGD: No, I did not say that. I said that he

will be disgusted with city setup although he
is able to earn his livelihood there. Thus he
will happily come back to our setup his
illusion about good city life being smashed.
And even if he comes back not out of
frustration for city life but due to his being
not economically fitting in modern world,
still he will be able to earn his livelihood
and live a comparatively healthy and
spiritual life. He may not be fully satisfied
with his situation but this is this world. It’s
not everything good. There is no ‚and they
lived happily ever after.‛ So this we have to
face anywhere we live. Do you want to say
that whoever is working in modern setup is
very satisfied by their condition; not at all.
Majority of them are completely dissatisfied
by their jobs and work of livelihood. Besides
these there are familial, social, and political
dissatisfactions. And there is not even a
thought of satisfying the soul. So the worst
condition in Vedic setup is the best possible
condition in modern setup.
Thus if I compare it is clear, at least to me,
that in this aspect also my child will be
better situated if I make him study in Vedic
setup.

Principal: I agree. You said that you will

teach him farming from childhood so as to
make his body suitable for later occupation.
But then you can be sued for child labor.
What about that?

NGD: May be you can read Child Labor

(Regulation and Prohibition) Act 1986. It
doesn’t completely prohibit giving any work
to child. It regulates it under conditions. It
says that a child between 6 to 14 years age
may be employed for 6 hours a day
including one hour break and in two
sessions none of which can exceed more
than 3 hours. This comes to be about two
sessions of two and half hours and an hour
break in between. Now this is much more
than sufficient time to teach farming or any
other occupation to any child within some
years. We are not going to exceed this limit
in any case even if we try hard. Moreover
the income or produce that is generated out
of such apprenticeship will be kept for that
child as his property and not enjoyed by
employer in the community. This will also
be informed to local child labor authority.
Thus there is no child labor case possible. I
hope you have understood.

Principal: Yes. I have understood. Okay my

inquiries are finished and I am satisfied by
your answers. I was just worried that you
may not be another father who is not giving
school education to his child without any
plan for him and thus spoiling his life. The
plans that you have made and way you have
explained them seem much bona fide and
thus I am satisfied. I will read literatures
given by you in order to understand your
plan better. Thank you.

NGD: Thank you for patiently and

tolerantly hearing my explanations that
may seem offensive to modern setup,
education, and government. But you
listened to me trying to understand my
feelings and problems. Please have some
prasädam at our house.

Hare Krishna.

Conclusion
It is evident from this conversation that
your child’s future is much more secured in
Vedic Setup than in modern setup. I have
tried to encompass all the doubts that a
parent usually have about his child’s future
in order to keep him in Vedic Setup for
training. Usually everyone is fearful of bad
influences of modern schools on their
children and look for alternatives so that
they do not need to send them to schools.
But many doubts haunt them and they have
to face their relatives’ rebuttals also. Thus
they feel alone and incapable to answer. I
hope that this booklet will help such
parents. Giving good character training may
be possible in city setup also but that is not
a complete solution as you end up not
providing livelihood setup and thus
afterwards your child has to mix with
modern society and he becomes at once
exposed to horrible waves of lust, anger and
greed. Whatever character you have trained
him in is lost just in few months or years.
Moreover it establishes in them that you did
not have full solution for them. Of course it
may not be a case always but it is more
obvious. Also it is much better if we have
complete solution; then we do not have to
depend on modern setup at all. And this
will also save us from the problems of
economic breakdown, peak oil etc.

Due to size of the book I have not included

detailed descriptions and thus readers are
invited to discuss things in detail so as to be
more convinced. Doubts and challenges are
also invited.

Thankyou,
Hari Guru Vaisnava Dasa,

Nartaka Gauranga Dasa

Nartaka.bvks@gmail.com

Nandagrama, Rajpipla, Gujarat, India