May march 4 1976
This is the position. PrahlādaMahārāja, humbly submitting, because he is Vaiṣṇava, that “What is my position? My position is that I am born of rajas-tamo-guṇa.” This birthtakesplaceaccording to quality we acquire. Just like I was rebukingthat toilet. This is so nasty, tamo-guṇa, and if I have no response to such tamo-guṇa place, that means I am also of that quality. Just like fire and fire, there is no reaction, but in fire and water there is reaction. Between fire and fire there is no reaction, but fire and water there is reaction. Similarly, sattva–guṇa—sattva–guṇa, there is no reaction. Tamo-guṇa—tamo-guṇathere is no reaction. It is… In English it is called incompatible. When different qualities, there is reaction, chemical reaction, acid and alkaline. Acid and acid, you mix; there is no reaction. But acid and alkaline, if you mix, there will be effervescence immediately. Sokāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo asya sad-asad-janma–yoniṣu [Bg. 13.22]. If one is developing tamo-guṇa, then, if he becomes, he becomes a pig next life, there is no reaction. He’ll be very glad that “I am pig,” “I am dog.” There is no reaction. But if one is sattva–guṇa, then he cannot tolerate. Immediately obnoxious: “Oh, such a nasty condition.”
So I am very sorry there was no reaction in such nasty toiletroom. And you are getting sacred thread, the quality of brāhmaṇa, sattva–guṇa.It is very regrettable. Nobody reacted.

So this is the position, that unless we…

tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ
kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye
ceta etair anāviddhaṁ
sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati
[SB 1.2.19]

We have to curb down these rago-guṇa, tamo-guṇa; otherwise there is no improvement. If a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is found, no reaction in rajo–guṇa, tamo-guṇa, then he’s a dull stone. It is not improving. It is simply showbottle. So showbottle will not act help,Tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ. This prescription is there. If one developsKṛṣṇa consciousness, then it is to be understood that he has surpassed sattva–guṇa, the brahminical qualification. Why we offer sacred thread to a person who is coming from very, very low family? Because it is to be understood by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, by following the regulative principle, he has already come to the platform of sattva–guṇa. But if it is a false thing, there is no need of second initiation. There must be. One must come. This, our process, is “Don’t do this. Do this: Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra sixteen rounds, and don’t do this—no illicit sex, no meat-eating.” That means he’s becoming purified. He’s becoming purified from the rotten condition of rajo–guṇa and tamo-guṇa. But if he does not, then there should be no second initiation. This should be the rule.

Antya 3.124

asamskrtah kriya-hina

rajasa tamasavrtah

prajas te bhaksayisyanti

mleccha rajanya-rupinah

“In the age of Kali, mlecchas, or lowborn people who have not

undergone the purifying process of samskara, who do not know how to

apply that process in actual life and who are covered by the modes of

passion and ignorance, will take the posts of administrators. They

will devour the citizens with their atheistic activities.” A person

who is not purified by the prescribed process of samskara is called

asamskrta, but if one remains kriya-hina even after being purified by
initiation–in other words, if one fails to actually apply the
principles of purity in his life–he remains an unpurified mleccha or
yavana.

Conclusions– by taking initiation from a bona fide spiritual master means we should be getting gradually free from the lower modes of passion and ignorance and coming to sattva guna. If we remain unclean in both body ,mind, and our environment, this means we have not taken to the process properly.

Hare Krsna
Damaghosa das