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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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When I came to your country, I saw nice boys and girls, finely educated, belonging to respectable family, and they are taking to any kind of work—doesn't matter. So I was very much pleased. But in India, a man born in brahmin family, and if he is—mostly they are poverty-stricken at the present moment—if he is asked that, "You can come, you take daily five rupees. You can wash the dishes," oh, he will never accept.
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[[Vanisource:690311 - Lecture SB 07.09.10 - Hawaii|690311 - Lecture SB 07.09.10 - Hawaii]]
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The prime responsibility is that everyone is open to accept Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja—he is born of a demon father, but Kṛṣṇa consciousness is open for him; he has accepted. So he is not to be considered as one of the members of the demon family. So he is personally recognizing that such a person, even born in lower family, he can purify himself by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he can purify his whole family.

This should be very particularly noted. This word is sa kulaṁ. Sa means with, and kulaṁ means family—sa kulaṁ punāti. So prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūrimānaḥ: "But that man who is simply proud that 'I am born in such-and-such family,' he is a rascal," because this false prestige is rascaldom.

This false prestige has killed the Vedic civilization. When I came to your country, I saw nice boys and girls, finely educated, belonging to respectable family, and they are taking to any kind of work—doesn't matter. So I was very much pleased.

But in India, a man born in brahmin family, and if he is—mostly they are poverty-stricken at the present moment—if he is asked that, "You can come, you take daily five rupees. You can wash the dishes," oh, he will never accept. He will starve to death, but he will not accept. You see? He will think, "Oh, I am born in a brahmin family. How can I wash your dishes?" This is false prestige.
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