Sound Bhakti

...and He goes on to explain in great detail what is the real qualification. It's not that one has the status of a brāhmaṇa, but it's one's a devotee. In Prahlāda Mahārāja's prayers (SB 7.9.10), he says, "viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha-pādāravinda-vimukhāt śvapacaṁ variṣṭham manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitārtha-prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūrimānaḥ." He says that I think that even if somebody's from a brahmana status and has all twelve of the brahminical qualifications—there's a book called Sanat-sujāta that describes all the ways that one should conform to brahminism—he says even if somebody has all those qualities, but they're not a devotee, they're averse to devotional service, he said such a person can't purify himself even with all these brahminical qualifications. He said but a person who comes from a low family, how low? Somebody who's got a pretty inferior diet, śvapaca. It's one of the ways that status is meted out, is by what people eat. That's pretty common. So if somebody comes from on