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Prabhupāda: Now today this function of installing Deity, this is authorized. Just like several times I have given the example …

Similarly, the difference between idol worship and Deity worship is like that. Unless authorized process is accepted, it is idol …

Similarly, we have to worship the Deity according to the authorized system. Just like in our Gauḍīya-sampradāya there is authorized …

śruti-smṛti-purāṇādi-pāñcarātrikī-vidhiṁ vinā aikāntikī harer bhaktir utpātāyaiva kalpate

[Brs. 1.2.101]

[Devotional service of the Lord that ignores the authorized Vedic literatures like the Upaniṣads, Purāṇas and Nārada-pañcarātra is simply an …

Without following the rules and regulations of Vedic injunctions, without reference to the regulative principles mentioned in different smṛtis, without …

In this age it is accepted as a fact by the śāstras, kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ. In this age nobody is actually …

But in this age, because it is very difficult to find out a person who is born of a qualified …

["Devotional service of the Lord that ignores the authorized Vedic literatures like the Upaniṣads, Purāṇas and Nārada-pañcarātra is simply an …

Either you follow the principles of śruti, Vedas, followed by smṛti, purāṇādi, or you follow the pāñcarātrikī-vidhī. The pāñcarātrikī-vidhī... Just …

There was agitation in India, perhaps you know, that Gandhi stamped some persons as harijana. Harijana. They were coming from …

Here, what we are doing, it is not rubber-stamping. It is actually training according to the pāñcarātrikī-vidhī. We are training …

[“’Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, which can cleanse the mirror …

So in this way harijana can be made, but not that you pick up somebody nonsense and rubber-stamp this "harijana." …

There is no hindrance for anyone to become harijana. Harijana means God's person or devotee. Hari means God, Kṛṣṇa, and …

Bhagavad-gītā says equal opportunity for everyone. Māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśrityā ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ [Bg. 9.32].

[O son of Pṛthā, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth—women, vaiśyas [merchants], as well …

Low-class born birth is understood due to sinful activities—low-class birth, animal birth. Sinful activities. But Kṛṣṇa says pāpa-yonayaḥ, born in …

[Devotional service of the Lord that ignores the authorized Vedic literatures like the Upaniṣads, Purāṇas and Nārada-pañcarātra is simply an …