There was agitation in India, perhaps you know, that Gandhi stamped some persons as harijana. Harijana. They were coming from the bhaṅgīs. Bhaṅgīs means sweepers or the cleaners of the toilet room. So Gandhi accepted them. The government was creating . . . British government was creating faction between the caste, low caste. So Gandhi thought that, "I shall make these bhaṅgīs and camars as harijana, as great devotees." But simply by rubber-stamping, how one can become devotee? That is not possible. Without going the pāñcarātrikī-vidhī, they remain the same unclean drunkard and the all nonsense habits. And simply by rubber-stamping, harijana? No.
Here, what we are doing, it is not rubber-stamp. It is actually training according to the pāñcarātrikī-vidhī. We are training all boys to become Brahmin: to refrain from four kinds of sinful activities, to take bath, to take this, take that. And above all, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Ceto-darpaṇa-marjanam (CC Antya 20.12, Śikṣāṣṭaka 1), cleansing of all sinful activities. So in this way harijana can be made, but not that you pick up somebody nonsense and rubber-stamp this "harijana" No. There must be process.
There is no hindrance for anyone to become harijana. Harijana means God's person or devotee. Hari means God, Kṛṣṇa, and jana means His person. Just like we have got here government servant, special, or ordinary person. So haijana means the servants of the Supreme Lord. So that is not ordinary thing. There is no harm to create harijana by regular process, but you cannot make harijana simply by stamping.
Bhagavad-gītā says equal opportunity for everyone. Māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśrityā ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ (BG 9.32). Low-class born birth is understood due to sinful activities—low-class birth, animal birth. Sinful activities. But Kṛṣṇa says pāpa-yonayaḥ, born in sinful families, never mind. Māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśrityā . . . if he becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious by bona fide process, māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśrityā . . . vyapāśrityā means bona fide process. Not an imitation, bona fide. And bona fide means as they are depicted, as they are described, as they are enjoined in the authorized śāstra like śruti-smṛti-purāṇādi-pañca . . . (Brs. 1.2.101). Māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśrityā ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ. Never mind in whatever family one is born, sinful family. Never mind. Striyaḥ śūdrās tathā vaiśyaḥ, including woman and śūdras and vaiśyas, they are considered as less intelligent. They are considered as less intelligent.