So any way, some way or other, if one takes to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he becomes at once purified. At once. Never mind what he is. There may be classification in the social convention: he is big, he is small, he is brāhmin, he is śūdra. Caitanya Mahāprabhu never says that "I am a brāhmin," "I am a kṣatriya." Nāhaṁ vipra na ca nara-patiḥ: "I am neither a brāhmin nor a kṣatriya nor a vaiśya and anything of this material designation." "Then what You are?" Gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ (CC Madhya 13.80): "I am the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of Kṛṣṇa." That is our transcendental . . . so as soon as we take to this, then everything is all right. But we have to take it very seriously. That is called abhidheya. With all seriousness. Then everything is all right. It is such a nice thing. Everything is all right.
Yathā mātur vāṇī. Now śruti, this Vedic, vedo mātā. Vedo mātā. Veda is called mother. Why? But this mother gives birth the second birth. We have . . . several times we have discussed in this hall that first birth is given by this material father and second birth is by the spiritual master. The spiritual master is the father, and the Veda is the mother.
So when a person is called dvija, second birth, when he goes to the spiritual master and takes lessons from Veda . . . this upana . . . the sacred thread is called upanayana . . . upanayana means to bring him nearer. Upa means nearer, and nayana means bringing. To take a fallen soul nearer, that is called upanayana.
And when the spiritual master sees that he is quite competent to come near to God, he recognizes him and he gives him sacred thread. That is called brāhmin. That is the symbol that he has approached a ācārya. Ācāryavān puruṣo veda (Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.14.2). How one is understood that he knows spiritual science? That means who has got a spiritual master. These things are there. Śrutir mātā. Śrutir mātā.
Smṛtir api tathā vakti bhaginī. Now, I have . . . we have divided the Vedic literature into two. The knowledge which is coming in disciplic succession, that knowledge is mother, and this knowledge, by memory, in with reference to the context of Vedic literature, if you sometimes write, that literature is the sister. That is compared with sister. One is with the mother, and the other is the sister.
So purāṇādyā ye vā sahaja nivahās te tad-anugā. So all these Purāṇas, they are called śruti. There are eighteen Purāṇas, the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and there are so many, Vedānta-sūtra . . . they are called . . . Upaniṣad is Veda; it is śruti. That is the gist of Vedic knowledge. But Purāṇas, they are called smṛti. So this śruti smṛtir, according to Indian theistic scholarship, there are two kinds of literature: śruti, smṛti.