If somebody questions how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmin? That is confirmed in Vedic language that it does not matter if one is born of low grade family or chandalas, if he is a devotee of the Lord, he is first class man

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"If somebody questions" |"how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmin" |"That is also confirmed in Vedic language that it does not matter if one is born of low grade family or chandalas, if he is a devotee of the Lord, he is first class man"

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1970 Correspondence

If somebody questions how it is possible, how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmin? That is also confirmed in Vedic language that it does not matter if one is born of low grade family or chandalas, if he is a devotee of the Lord, he is first class man.

700116 - Letter to Janardana written from Los Angeles

Brahmins are first grade men; Kshatriyas, second grade; Vaishas, third grade; Sudras, fourth grade. There are many of these different fifth grade men and it is difficult to find who are these fifth grade persons in present society. But the point is that they are all less than Sudra.So these persons are all less than Sudras but Srimad Bhagwatam says even they, under the guidance of a pure devotee, can also be raised up the the highest standard more than the Brahmins. If somebody questions how it is possible, how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmin? That is also confirmed in Vedic language that it does not matter if one is born of low grade family or chandalas, if he is a devotee of the Lord, he is first class man. There are other statements that a man after becoming a devotee becomes immediately qualified to execute sacrificial ceremonies. In this connection, Jeeva Goswami has given his commentation that a person born even in a Brahmin family is dependent on the purificatory processes as accepting initiation and sacred thread, but a devotee without waiting for such recognition becomes fit to act as a Brahmin, and this is the statement of Narada Muni in this verse. This means as stated in the Bhagavad Gita there are different symptoms of different classes of men -just like a Brahmin is truthful, clean, self-controlled, equipoised, tolerant, simple, full of knowledge, theist, and so on. Similarly a Kshatriya has symptoms—a tendency for ruling over others, martial spirited, charitable, does not flee away from the battlefield and so on. Similarly, the symptoms of a Vaisha is his tendency to agriculture, trade, cow protection and banking. And the Sudra's tendency is to some way or other work anywhere and get some wages.