Everyone is śūdra—kalau śūdra-sambhava. In this age, nobody is actually born of a brahmin family or kṣatriya family. That is accepted. Because nobody is keeping up their standard.
They are simply following some false prestige. So therefore the pāñcarātrika-vidhi, they do not recognize anybody as qualified brahmin. Everyone śūdra, beginning from the lowest stage. Get him conversant in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and then initiated, and gradually elevate him by this process.
So our this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement is based on this process, that we accept everyone as lowborn. Even if he is . . . my Guru Mahārāja, even if he is born of a brahmin family, he would not recognize that he is a brāhmaṇa. He would treat him as others. And even if he had his sacred thread from his family, Guru Mahārāja will say, "Throw it away. Take new thread." Yes.
The Bon Mahārāja, he was coming from a brahmin family; he had to throw away his old sacred thread, and he was further initiated. He did not recognize anyone as brahmin or high class. No. Everyone is śūdra. "Come on. New beginning. New life again." And that is the whole basic principle of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.