ajaran maharaja Prahlada

Prahlad Maharaja told his friends, "You have to begin Krsna
consciousness immediately." All the boys were born of atheistic,
materialistic families, but fortunately Prahlad was a great devotee of the Lord from his birth. Whenever he found an opportunity, when the teacher was out of the room, he used to speak: "My dear friends, this is the time. This is the time to begin Krsna consciousness." Now, as we have stated, someone might have said, "But we are just boys. Let us play. We are not going to die immediately. Let us have some enjoyment, and then we shall begin Krsna consciousness." People do not know that Krsna consciousness is the highest enjoyment. They think that the boys who have joined this Krsna consciousness movement are foolish. "They have left everything, and by Prabhupada's influence they have joined." But actually this is not so. They are all intelligent, educated boys, coming from very respectable families; they are not fools. They are actually enjoying life, otherwise they would not have spared their
valuable time for this movement. Actually there is joyful life, but people do not know. They say, "What is this Krsna consciousness?" When one grows into the sense gratification process, it is very difficult to get out of it. Therefore, according to Vedic regulations, in student life, beginning from five years of age, boys are taught about spiritual life. That is called brahmacarya. A brahmacari is one who has dedicated his life for supreme Krsna consciousness or Brahman consciousness. He is called a brahmacari. He is always situated in the Supreme (Brahman). Brahmacarya has so many rules and regulations: according to brahmacari regulations, however rich one's father may be, one should be trained by the brahmacari system, under the guidance of a spiritual master, and he should work in the asrama of the spiritual master just like a menial servant. How is this possible? We are getting actual experience that very nice boys coming from very respectable families do not hesitate to do any work here. They are washing dishes, cleansing floors--everything. One student's mother was astonished at her boy when he visited home. Before, he would not even go to the store, and now he is engaged twenty-four hours a day. Unless one feels pleasure, how is it
possible that he can engage himself in such a process as Krsna consciousness? This is only due to Hare Krsna. This is our single asset-Hare Krsna. One can be very jolly, simply by Krsna consciousness. Actually there is joyful life. But unless one is trained, one cannot live it. Prahlad Maharaja says that everyone is attached to family affection. If one is attached to family affairs, he cannot control his senses. Naturally, everyone wants to love. Society, friendship and love are needed. They are demands of the spirit soul, but they are being pervertedly reflected. Generally, I have seen that many ladies and gentlemen in your country have no family life, but they have placed their love in cats and dogs. Because he or she wants to love someone but does not see anyone suitable to his desire, he therefore prefers to place his valuable love in cats and dogs. Our concern is just to transfer the love--which has to be placed somewhere--to Krsna. This is Krsna consciousness. If you transfer the love to Krsna, that is perfection. But, because we do not know where to place our love, being frustrated and cheated, we at last place our love in cats and dogs. Everyone is entangled by this material,
perverted love. It is very difficult to develop spiritual life when one is advanced in material love. It is very difficult because this bondage of love is
very strong. Therefore, Prahlad's proposition was that one should learn Krsna consciousness immediately from childhood. When a boy is five or six years old, he is sent to school to be trained. When he is too young it is not possible for him to go to school, but as soon as his consciousness is developed, he is sent for education. Prahlad Maharaja says that one's education should be Krsna Conscious, and it should begin immediately. When one is between the ages of five to fifteen years, he is considered a boy. After sixteen years one becomes a young man. He goes on to forty years, and then after forty years he is elderly; then, after sixty years, he is an old man. Prahlad Maharaja says that one should be taught Krsna consciousness from the beginning, from five to fifteen years of age. This is a very valuable time; you can train any boy in Krsna consciousness, and he will be perfect. When one becomes a little more advanced in materialism, it is difficult to develop spiritual life. What is materialism? Materialism means that everyone of us in this material world, although we are spirit soul, somehow or other wants to enjoy this material world. Don't try to find out when it began, but actually that is the situation. This world
is meant for enjoyment. Enjoyment is already present in my spirit soul, but we have come here to partake of contaminated enjoyment, just like a man who is on the Bowery and thinks he's enjoying. Some animals enjoy by eating stool. According to the body, we have different kinds of enjoyment. The basic principle of enjoyment is sex life. Therefore, you will find sex life not only in human society, but in cat society, dog society, bird society--everywhere. During daytime, a pigeon has sex at least twenty times. This is his enjoyment. The basic principle of material life is sex life. Srimad-Bhagavatam says that material enjoyment is based upon nothing more than the combination of man and woman in sex life. In the beginning a boy thinks, "Oh, that girl is nice," or the girl says, "That boy is nice. And when they meet, that material contamination becomes more prominent. My heart is already attached to material enjoyment, but as soon as I actually enjoy it, it becomes more attached, completely attached. How? As soon as a boy and girl are married, they want an apartment. Then, to maintain that apartment, they need some income. Then, when there is income, they want to have children.