On
Establishing a Varnasrama College: Founding Principles
1.A varnasrama college will bring about global peace.
(Siksamrta, Srila Prabhupada on Varnasrama)
2.A varnasrama college will bring full employment. (Same)
3.A varnasrama college will prove that Krsna is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead by all two thousand fields of endeavour taught in
schools, gurukulas, colleges, universities and all other training and
educational institutions globally.
4.A varnasrama college will implement the work of the
Bhaktivedanta Institute by showing consciousness within the sciences.
5.A varnasrama college will teach bhakti-sastri,
bhakti-vaibhava, bhaktivedanta and bhakti-sarvabhauma.
6.A varnasrama college will provide education and training
for all 225 heads of state.
7.A varnasrama college will give direction to the United
Nations Secretary-General how to adopt one book – Bhagavad-gita, how to worship
one God - Lord Sri Krsna,
how to chant one mantra – Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna
Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and how to adopt
one work – service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna.
8.A varnasrama college will establish one emperor for the
whole world, under one government.
9.A varnasrama college will teach how to grow your own food,
how to take care of cows, how to build your own shelter and chant Hare Krsna.
10.A varnasrama college will teach simple living and high
thinking by producing only what you need and using only what you produce.
11.A varnasrama college will teach all 64 Vedic arts and
sciences.
12.A varnasrama college will not simply be an educational
institution, but also a social, cultural, political, entrepreneurial and
practical operational institution, based on pure spiritual life.
13.A varnasrama college will teach the 14 books of Vedic
knowledge which are:-
The 4 Vedas
- Rg
Veda
- Sama
Veda
- Yajur
Veda
- Atharva
Veda
The 6 Vedangas
1.Siksa
(phonetics)
2.Chanda (meter)
3.Nirukti
(dictionary)
4.Jyotisa (astronomy and
asrology)
5.Kalpa (Deity worship, Yagnas,
samskaras)
6.Vyakarana (grammar)
The 4 Upangas
1.Dharma (including Canakya
Pandita’s Niti-sastra and the Manu Samhita or Vedic book of Law)
2.Vedanta
(philosophy)
3.Nyaya (logic)
4.Purana
(history, including the Itihasas: Ramayana and Mahabharata and Vedic sciences taught in the Upapuranas: -
1.Ayurveda
(medicine)
2.Gandharva
– veda (performing arts)
3.Stapathya
– veda (Vastu or the science of sacred space)
4.Dhanur
– veda (military science)
14.A varnasrama college will
teach Pancaratrika viddhi and Bhagavata viddhi
15.A varnasrama college will
teach srutis – theoretical knowledge, i.e. srutis refer to spiritual and to
transcendental knowledge and
smritis – practical
knowledge, application, smritis encompass all material arts and sciences needed
for functioning properly while living in this material world.
In any science, a theory is
proven by its application so smritis (evidence) demonstrate the srutis
16,A varnasrama college will
teach how to come back to the countryside, stay in your village, cultivate your
soil, milk your cows and chant Hare Krsna.
17,A varnasrama college will
teach Samskrta, Bengali and English at the very least.
18.A varnasrama college will teach
all soft technologies found in villages globally.
19.A varnasrama college will be
attached to each ISKCON temple / center globally and there will be 1008 such
varnasrama colleges.
20.A varnasrama college will be
funded from the following main sources:-
1.public
sector – UN, central governments, local governments, agencies
2.private
sector – multi-national companies, businesses
3.voluntary
sector – charities, trusts
4.individual
– sponsorships, donations
21.A varnasrama college will
establish Vedic culture and civilisation globally.
22.A varnasrama college will teach sambandha – jnana, abhideya –
jnana, and prayojana - jnana
23.A varnasrama college will
teach how to bring all ISKCON farms up to date and relevant to the times, with
a view to accommodating any number of people who want to stay.
24.A varnasrama college will
teach how to divide society into four social orders, namely, brahmanas,
ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras and four spiritual orders, brahmacaris, grhastas,
vanaprasthas and sannyasis.
25.A varnasrama college will
incorporate all Bhakti Life courses, and those undertaken by all other ISKCON
educational institutions, such as Bhaktivedanta College, VIHE, MIHE and Bhaktivedanta Academy and Rupanuga Vedic
College, IYF, Pandava Sena, Bhaktivedanta Players. In this way, a varnasrama
college will seek to converge and unite organisations, communities and
countries in order to create harmony and stability everywhere.
26.A varnasrama college will be
based at tertiary level along the lines of the Krsna Avanti primary and
secondary level of education schools: at the heart will be the ISKCON temple /
center and around the periphery will be the varnasrama college.
27.A varnasrama college will
offer across the spectrum courses from fully residential to day only.
28.A varnasrama college will be
for 16years of age and upwards, both for men and women to learn and teach all
cottage industries, as discovered at our present ISKCON communities, such as
New Vrndavana, West Virginia and Spanish Fork, Utah.
29.Each varnasrama college will
have a purpose-built temple, if one does not already exist, with all the
surrounding land and property belonging to the presiding Deity, along the lines
of the system of Sri Jagannatha Puri, India.
30.A varnasrama college will take
our Krsna consciousness movement into its second phase based on land, cows,
grhastas and varnasrama- dharma.
31.A varnasrama college will
cater for a community within a 10mile radius. So, typically, if it 1000miles
from John O’Groats to Land’s End, there will be approximately 50 communities,
diagonally and similar cross-wise as
appropriate (10).
32.A varnasrama college will in
this way, be the focus for a varnasrama village or a Vrndavana village, with
appropriate divisions of brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras. Candalas and
others will live outside the village.
33.A varnasrama college will form the basis for the daiva
varnasrama-dharma institution, which will be the means to create a Vaikuntha
planet.
34.A varnasrama college is meant
for making a person self-sufficient, self-sustained and self-realised by
developing all 50 qualities of a jiva-tattva and thus attain his full potential
in one life-time.
35.A varnasrama college will form
as a result of and as a product of the purity of the chanting of the Holy Name
and proof of the efficacy and the efficiency of the sankirtana movement of the
Lord and thus usher in another wave of the Golden period in this age.
36.A varnasrama college will have
at its core the books of His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada and his disciples to take direction
from for its philosophy, management and administration, its funding and its
application and operation.
37. A varnasrama college will
have the following:-
1. brahmanas - for studying and teaching, fire sacrifices,
samskaras
2. ksatriyas - for management, adminstration and law
and order
3. vaisyas - for cow protection, agriculture,
horticulture, permaculture,
trade and commerce
4. sudras - for manufacturing all items of arts
and crafts under cottage
industries and services such as kirtana
and drama
38.A varnasrama college’s purpose
is to create a God-centred society globally.
39.A varnasrama college will
teach how to minimise and down-size in the cities by having city farms and
community gardens.
40.A varnasrama college will
teach the science of Krsna and devotional service.
This is not an exhaustive list
and devotees may want to add to this in due course.
