Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in this age He did not recognize. He did not recognize. He actually followed the Vedic principle. He said that it doesn't matter, one is not responsible for his birth. How can one be responsible?
May be the father and mother are different, or some way or other he is born in that father and mother, but he has got a certain type of body—but that . . .
(break) . . . responsible for that. He is responsible in the . . . I mean, the finer sense, that due to some of his past misdeeds he has been born in that way. But that is not the prime responsibility.
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.