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<div id="LectureonBG73BombayMarch291971_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="260" link="Lecture on BG 7.3 -- Bombay, March 29, 1971" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.3 -- Bombay, March 29, 1971">
<div class="heading">This initiation is offered not according to the Vedic rules, because it is very difficult to find out a qualified brāhmaṇa. Dīkṣā is offered to a qualified brāhmaṇa. Therefore this dīkṣā is offered according to Pāñcarātriki-vidhi. That is recommended in this age. My spiritual master inaugurated this Pāñcarātriki-vidhi, and we are following his footsteps. Anyone who is inclined to devote his life for Kṛṣṇa, he should be accepted as brāhmaṇa.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.3 -- Bombay, March 29, 1971|Lecture on BG 7.3 -- Bombay, March 29, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Our Sanātana Gosvāmī gives direction in the ''Hari-bhakti-vilāsa'' that one man can become a ''brāhmin'' by the regular process of ''dīkṣā''. ''Dīkṣā'', this initiation, cannot be offered to a ''śūdra''. ''Dīkṣā'' cannot be offered to a ''śūdra''. But in this age, Kali-yuga, it is the statement of the ''śāstras'' that in the Kali-yuga most of the population are ''śūdras''. ''Kalau śūdrā sambhavāḥ''. How they can be initiated?

This initiation is offered not according to the Vedic rules, because it is very difficult to find out a qualified ''brāhmin''. ''Dīkṣā'' is offered to a qualified ''brāhmaṇa''. Therefore this ''dīkṣā'' is offered according to ''Pāñcarātriki-vidhi''. That is recommended in this age. My spiritual master inaugurated this ''Pāñcarātriki-vidhi'', and we are following his footsteps.

Anyone who is inclined to devote his life for Kṛṣṇa, he should be accepted as ''brāhmin''. Of course, he should be trained up. Not that these boys and girls are being initiated all of a sudden. They are trained up for six months, one year, then they are offered ''hari-nāma''. And when they are qualified actually in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'', at least sixteen rounds daily, when we see, one year at least, that he is doing his duties, following the regulative principles . . . all these boys and girls who are initiated, they will have to follow the regulative principles—no illicit sex life.

Just like one couple is married, because we don't allow to live . . . to allow the boys and girls to live as friends. No. That is not allowed. All my students who came to me . . . because it has become a system in their country, the young boys and girls, they live as friends, without parents taking care of their being married. That has become a system, regular system in Europe and America. And India also it is going to be introduced very soon.

It is already introduced, and it will develop. And in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' there is foretelling that in this age there will be no more marriage. Vedic marriage will be stopped. ''Svīkāra eva ca udvāhe'' ([[Vanisource:SB 12.2.5|SB 12.2.5]]). Simply by agreement, the marriage function will be performed. But as far as we are concerned, we are trying to establish ''daiva-varṇāśrama'', as it is instructed by the Gosvāmīs, by ''Hari-bhakti-vilāsa'', by our spiritual master. May not be very perfect, but we are trying our best to introduce this ''daiva-varṇāśrama''.</p>
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