video: New Vrindavan
“In those days, Vaidic brahminical culture, without becoming brahmana, he cannot be initiated. Initiation means to make one brahmana. So, according to our Gosvami process, Sanatana Gosvami, he has given us the book, Hari-bhakti-vilasa. In that book he has written,
yatha kancanatam yati kamsyam rasa-vidhanatah tatha diksa-vidhanena dvijatvam jayate nrnam
Nrnam: “Of all human beings, by initiation, he becomes a dvija.” So we follow that principle. And besides that, Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered that bharata-bhumite…”
Room Conversation
with Sanskrit Professor
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
August 13, 1973, Paris
