Question: In our school preaching, we make the children chant a little, sing a little and hear some Krsna stories. What is the benefit they get? Will they ever come to the platform of taking initiation and practicing KC seriously?

Jayapataka Swami: I don’t know if they are here today? No. But any way, we plant the seeds and the kids chant, they participate, and in the future they may become devotees. I remember one child in Ireland, she was watching the kirtan party on the street. And parents said, come on, come on! She was eleven years old. Later she became a devotee. She always remembered how she saw the kirtan party when she was eleven and she was so interested, she wanted to go, but her parents pulled her away. So who knows how many children would chant in their school days and become devotees in the future? So we plant the seeds and we try to water as much as we can! But when the seeds will grow, when the plant would bear fruits, we cannot say. But there would be no loss. Someday it would bear fruit! Hare Krsna!
27-JULY-2019 CHENNAI, INDIA