751209SB.VRN                   Lectures
Now, just like people protest because we are giving the position of
a brahmana to the mlecchas, yavana. Yavanah khasadayah. Khasadayah
means Mongolians, the Chinese, Japanese and the Philipines. So they
are khasadaya. The Manipuris, Assamese, they are considered as
khasadaya. So there is no distinction. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given
open declaration: krsna-bhajanete nahi jati kuladi vicara. Anyone who
is desirous of becoming Krsna conscious, it is open. Anyone can come.
By proper training by the expert spiritual master everyone can be
raised to the brahminical platform and then Vaisnava platform.
sudhyanti. So how sudhyanti? Sudhyanti. So how sudhyanti? The general
process is that unless one is (sic:) not born in brahmana family, he
is not suddha; he is impure by birth. That is fact. But the devotee
can change. This is new birth, undoubtedly. Just like these, our
European, American students. They are new birth. They have given up
their old birth practices. So birth is changed. Punar janma. So that
is possible only by Krsna consciousness. If one has to change his body
without changing body… The body is changed, but we see that the same
body…, but it is not the same body. It is cin-maya. The same
example, that the iron rod put into the fire, it becomes red hot, so
it is no longer iron; it is fire. Similarly, if we constantly keep