SB 07.09.10 viprad dvi-sad-guna-yutad... cited

Expressions researched:
"aravinda-nabha" |"manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitartha" |"padaravinda-vimukhat" |"pranam punati sa kulam na tu bhurimanah" |"svapacam varistham" |"the devotee can purify his whole family" |"viprad dvi-sad-guna-yutad"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "7.9.10" or "aravinda-nabha" or "manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitartha" or "padaravinda-vimukhat" or "pranam punati sa kulam na tu bhurimanah" or "svapacam varistham" or "the devotee can purify his whole family" or "viprad dvi-sad-guna-yutad"

SB Canto 4

SB 4.31.10, Purport:

"Even if one is born in the family of a caṇḍāla, if one engages in the devotional service of the Lord, he becomes the best of brāhmaṇas. But even a brāhmaṇa who is devoid of devotional service is on the level of the lowest dog-eater." If a person is advanced in devotional service, it does not matter whether he was born in a caṇḍāla family. He becomes purified. As Śrī Prahlāda Mahārāja said:

viprād dviṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha-

pādāravinda-vimukhāc chvapacaṁ variṣṭham

(SB 7.9.10)

Even if one is a brāhmaṇa and is qualified with all the brahminical qualifications, he is considered degraded if he is averse to worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But if a person is attached to the service of the Lord, he becomes glorified even if he is born in a caṇḍāla family. Indeed, such a caṇḍāla can deliver not only himself but all his family predecessors. Without devotional service, even a proud brāhmaṇa cannot deliver himself, and what to speak of his family. In many instances in the śāstras it is seen that even a brāhmaṇa has become a kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, mleccha or non-brāhmaṇa. And there are many instances of one's being born a kṣatriya or vaiśya or even lower and, in the eighteenth year, attaining elevation to the brahminical platform by the process of initiation.