GPT Children’s Voices [Issue 1] <\/p>\n
By Brajasundari Hausner<\/strong> (9 years old) <\/p>\n I am in fourth grade at the Bhaktivedanta Academy in Alachua, which is like my second home. Growing up in a big community with lots of devotees and going to a Krishna conscious school make me feel very fortunate because not many devote children have this rare opportunity. At my school I am free to talk about Lord Krishna, have deities, chant japa, and read Krishna’s pastimes with my friends, without being criticized by classmates or teachers. <\/p>\n No matter what day it is, all the classes do Krishna conscious activities, which make every one feel happy. All the teachers at the school are devotees and they care so much about both our spiritual and material life. They want to teach us all they can. It makes me feel so lucky that they care so much about me and all the other students. If I were attending a non-devotee school, I would feel very uncomfortable with the atmosphere and not being able to talk about Krishna. I feel that it is necessary to open gurukulas near temples for the benefit of both the children and the parents because it makes the parens happy that there child can go to a Krishna consicouss school and have devote friends they can associate with. <\/p>\n Also, having a school right on the temple property has many advantages. I can hear the arati going on while having lunch outside. I can even get up early to go to the temple for kirtan and arati to see the Lord. When the kirtan is finished, I can walk from the temple to the school with my friends. Having gurukulas is very important because it gives parents relief knowing that their children are having a Krishna Conscious education. Srila Prabhupada himself very much wanted this. He once wrote “Gurukula is our most important project. If the children are given a Krishna Conscious education from early childhood then there is great hope for the future of the world.” He was very determined to establish schools because he wanted devotee children to have a Krishna conscious education. <\/p>\n He knew that if the children go to schools that are not Krishna conscious, they may start to go away from spiritual life, forget about Krishna, and be engaged in bad activities. However, if they go to a Krishna conscious school instead of going away from Krishna they will be with Him at school some way all the time. I am praying that Krishna will shower His mercy and let us open more beautiful gurukulas for the benefit of many more children around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Brajasundari Hausner<\/strong><\/p>\n I am in fourth grade at the Bhaktivedanta Academy in Alachua, which is like my second home. Growing up in a big community with lots of devotees and going to a Krishna conscious school make me feel very fortunate because not many devote children have this rare opportunity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}