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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div class="heading">So we have to train like that, guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ, not that everyone should be Sanskrit scholar. Why? It is not necessary. There are so many other things.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation About Gurukula -- November 5, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation About Gurukula -- November 5, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhagatji: He is not interested in education, not at all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no education... That is waste of... For such boys who are not interested, why they should be enforced, education? They are not meant for that. Education is for higher brain, sober brain. And not that everyone has to become literate. It is not required. He can do other work. Yes.</p>
<p>Bhagatji: Prabhupāda means that according to the nature, you engage them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13|BG 4.13]]). Guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ. "You can do this? All right, do it. Why you should be forced to learn Sanskrit? Not necessary. Not necessary."</p>
<p>Dhanurdhara: What of a boy who does the chanting nicely and the kīrtana nicely but doesn't do the school work nicely?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Dhanurdhara: What of a boy who does the japa very nicely and...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Well, japa... Whether his father is doing japa nicely, that is also doubtful. What to speak of children? Japa, children cannot... That should not be taken very seriously. Whatever he can do, that's all right. We should enforce, we should... But not that if he does not immediately, he should be rejected. No.</p>
<p>Jagadīśa: You've often said the first-class intelligent men are the brāhmaṇas, second-class intelligent men are the kṣatriyas...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So we have to train like that, guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ, not that everyone should be Sanskrit scholar. Why? It is not necessary. There are so many other things.</p>
<p>Jagadīśa: The inclination depends on guṇa-karma.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Although by nature we should not enforce something. We should see for which work he is suitable. You should engage him. And we must have all departments of work—the weaving department, the plowing department, the cow-keeping department, the Sanskrit department, the English department, the trading department. We should have all the departments. Guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13|BG 4.13]]).</p>
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