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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we don't take it very insignificantly. It is a great science. And Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: "Anyone who knows this science, he becomes spiritual master. It doesn't matter what he is." He has actually said: kibā śūdra kibā vipra nyāsī kene naya yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei 'guru' haya.
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Prabhupāda: Hari-śauri. So you know the principles, regulative principles?

Hari-śauri: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Yes. How many rounds you will chant?

Hari-śauri: Sixteen rounds a day.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So your name is Hari-śauri. Śauri means learned scholar, and Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. "One who is a learned scholar in the science of Kṛṣṇa." It is a great science. Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we don't take it very insignificantly. It is a great science. And Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: "Anyone who knows this science, he becomes spiritual master. It doesn't matter what he is." He has actually said:

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:kibā śūdra kibā vipra nyāsī kene naya
:yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei 'guru' haya 
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Kibā śūdra. Śūdra is considered to be the lowest in the civilized society, śūdra. No, if not lowest, lower, lower class, worker class, no intelligence. Kibā śūdra kibā . . . and vipra means brahmin, the most intelligent class of the human society. So either one is a śūdra—śūdra means born in a śūdra family—or vipra, similarly born in a vipra family . . . kibā śūdra kibā vipra nyāsī kene. Nyāsī means sannyāsī.

Sannyāsa order is the topmost order in social division. So whatever he may be—the only qualification, if he knows the science of Kṛṣṇa, he becomes spiritual master. So śauri, one who is learned, Hari-śauri, one who is learned in the science of Kṛṣṇa. So try to be a learned scholar in Kṛṣṇa science and deliver the whole world. Thank you. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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