If the first-class brāhmins do not take care of these pāpa-yoni, then who will deliver them? We are the . . . some agitation is going on that this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is killing Hindu religion. You see? Just see their poor fund of knowledge. It is the duty of the first-class brāhmin to enlighten these pāpa-yoni. Otherwise, who will enlighten them? Guru will enlighten. And who is guru? Śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham. Brahmā-niṣṭham means he must be brāhmin. So if the so-called brāhmins, they do not take care of them, and if they remain brāhmins, limited, within some limited area, do not go outside, then who will deliver them?
So these are not very sound arguments. It is very, what is called, crippled ideas. The brāhmin means udāra. The opposite word of brāhmin is kṛpaṇa, "Who is very miser." A brāhmin cannot be miser. Even a hundred years ago the brāhmin would give chance to anyone to become brāhmin. I have got so many instances. That is the duty of brāhmin. Paṭhana pāṭhana. The brāhmin should be learned, and a brāhmin should make others learned, other brāhmin, not that he simply satisfied that he's brāhmin and nobody should become brāhmin. No. He should make others brāhmin.
Just like a big lawyer, he makes his assistants lawyer. A professor, learned professor, he makes others professor. Otherwise, it is called jñāna-khala, miser. The knowledge should be distributed. Any scientist discovery, they distribute it. Similarly, brāhmin should be udāra. Not only he should personally know what is Brahman, but he should distribute the knowledge. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu said:
- bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra
- janma sārthaka kari' kara paropakāra
- (CC Adi 9.41)
It is the duty of the brāhmins. Paropakāra. And without being human being, how he can become a brāhmin? Cats and dogs cannot become brāhmin. The perfect human being means brāhmin, the first-class, perfect being. That is brāhmin. And brāhmin's duty is for paropakāra. Paṭhana pāṭhana yajana yājana dāna pratigraha.
Ṣaṭ-karma-nipuṇo vipro mantra-tantra-viśāradaḥ, avaiṣṇava-gurur na sa syāt (Padma Purāṇa). A . . . one who is Vaiṣṇava . . . just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He becomes guru because He's udāra. Vaiṣṇava means para-duḥkha-duḥkhī.