Are you a school just for Brahmanas?

Srila Prabhupada requested that all members of ISKCON take up brahminical culture. Therefore all activities are based on developing these qualities within the students and teachers.

The basic principle of devotional service as given by Srila Prabhupada, is that all devotees are brahmical by qualities and culture, while they may have different varnas by occupation. For example, all devotees will come to the temple early for mangal arati, practice cleanliness, chant japa etc, but during the day devotees may be engaged in different occupational activities: education, administration, business or general work. Srila Prabhupada accepted all devotees who were willing to follow a minimum of devotional or brahminical culture, while allowing wide scope for the particular service or occupation of the devotees.

In the same way, we accept all students who are willing to be trained under these criteria regardless of their natural inclinations for work. They are simultaneously trained in the brahimical culture, and also in the area of their occupational interest, which gradually develops over many years.

Of course, prior to any differentiation of duties on the basis of varna or occupation, all students must go through the primary and secondary educational streams to develop the basics of literacy, numeracy, geography etc. that Srila Prabhupada set down for his young devotees.