So we have to understand Bhagavān and we have to hear from Him. And He's speaking perfectly in the Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And if you take it yad viditvā, if you are fortunate enough to understand the words of Kṛṣṇa and Kapiladeva, then the result will be vimucyeta: immediately become liberated. If you are fortunate enough, if you are intelligent enough to understand the words of Kapiladeva or Kṛṣṇa or Ṛṣabhadeva—there are so many incarnation—then puruṣaḥ prākṛtair vimucyeta. Vimucyeta means become free, uncontaminated. What is that contamination? Prākṛta-guṇaih, these material infection that, "I am brāhmaṇa," "I am kṣatriya," "I am vaiśya," "I am śūdra," "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am this," "I am that." These are all prākṛti. Prākṛti, material qualification. Even if you are perfect Brāhmiṇ, that is also material qualification. But in the platform of pure Brāhmiṇ you can have the chance of understanding the aprākṛta, adhokṣaja. Therefore you have to become brāhmaṇa, qualified brāhmaṇa. Then there is chance.
So in this age it is very difficult to become exactly a Vedic brāhmaṇa. That's very, very difficult, because everyone has become śūdra. Kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ (Skanda Purāṇa). In the Kali-yuga you cannot find out exactly a qualified brāhmaṇa. Very rare. Very rare. Therefore Vedic brāhmaṇa is not possible. It is . . . our movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is creating pāñcarātriki-vidhi. Pāñcarātriki-vidhi-brāhmaṇa means there is no evidence or there is no certainty whether one is brāhmaṇa or son of brāhmaṇa, because so many things are lacking. But, if he has got little taste for Kṛṣṇa understanding, he should be encouraged. That is pāñcarātriki. Just like if there is little fire you fan it—fan it, and it will come out a big, blazing fire.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to do that, and it is easier because in the śāstra it is said by Śukadeva Gosvāmī that there is one opportunity. "My dear King, Parīkṣit, I've described to you about the faulty nature of this Kali-yuga, but there is a very good opportunity for the people, fallen conditioned souls, of this Kali-yuga." "What is that?" Kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ (SB 12.3.51): "The . . . in the Kali-yuga, it is like the ocean of fault. So, but still there is one very good opportunity." "What is that?" Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51): "You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and become liberated and go to back to home, back to Godhead."