Accept disciples (Books)

Expressions researched:
"accept a bona fide disciple" |"accept a disciple" |"accept a disciple" |"accept any disciple" |"accept any disciples" |"accept as a disciple" |"accept disciples" |"accept him as a disciple" |"accept him as his disciple" |"accept many disciples" |"accept somebody as disciple" |"accept this boy as disciple" |"accept you as my disciple" |"accepted a disciple" |"accepted as a disciple" |"accepted as our disciples" |"accepted disciples" |"accepted him as disciple" |"accepted him as his disciple" |"accepted many thousands of disciples" |"accepted me as a disciple" |"accepted me as a disciple" |"accepted me as his disciple" |"accepted some disciples" |"accepting a disciple" |"accepting disciples" |"accepts a disciple" |"accepts charge of disciples" |"accepts disciples" |"accepts his disciple"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "accept* disciple*" or "accept * disciple*" or "accept* * * disciple*" or "accept* * * * disciple*"

SB Canto 1

SB 1.2.2, Purport:

The institution of varṇa and āśrama prescribes many regulative duties to be observed by its followers. Such duties enjoin that a candidate willing to study the Vedas must approach a bona fide spiritual master and request acceptance as his disciple. The sacred thread is the sign of those who are competent to study the Vedas from the ācārya, or the bona fide spiritual master. Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī did not undergo such purificatory ceremonies because he was a liberated soul from his very birth.