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Pastimes of the Lord in His Youth
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PURPORT
Among the members of the  varṇāśrama  institution's social orders ( brāhmaṇa ,  kṣatriya ,  vaiśya  and  śūdra ), the  brāhmaṇa  is considered the foremost, for he is the teacher and spiritual master of all the other  varṇas . Similarly, among the spiritual orders ( brahmacarya ,  gṛhastha ,  vānaprastha  and  sannyāsa ), the  sannyāsa  order is the most elevated. Therefore a  sannyāsī  is the spiritual master of all the  varṇas  and  āśramas , and a  brāhmaṇa  is also expected to offer obeisances to a  sannyāsī . Unfortunately, however, caste  brāhmaṇas  do not offer obeisances to a  Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī . They are so proud that they do not offer obeisances even to Indian  sannyāsīs , not to speak of European and American  sannyāsīs . Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, expected that even the caste  brāhmaṇas  would offer respectful obeisances to a  sannyāsī  because five hundred years ago the social custom was to offer obeisances immediately to any  sannyāsī , known or unknown.
The  sannyāsīs  of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are bona fide. All the students of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement have undergone the regular process of initiation. As enjoined in the  Hari-bhakti-vilāsa  by Sanātana Gosvāmī,  tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena dvijatvaṁ jāyate nṛṇām : by the regular process of initiation, any man can become a  brāhmaṇa . Thus in the beginning the students of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement agree to live with devotees, and gradually, having given up four prohibited activities—illicit sex, gambling, meat-eating and intoxication—they become advanced in the activities of spiritual life. When one is found to be regularly following these principles, he is given the first initiation ( hari-nāma ), and he regularly chants at least sixteen rounds a day. Then, after six months or a year, he is initiated for the second time and given the sacred thread with the regular sacrifice and rituals. After some time, when he advances still further and is willing to give up this material world, he is given the  sannyāsa  order. At that time he receives the title  svāmī  or  gosvāmī , both of which mean “master of the senses.” Unfortunately, debauched so-called  brāhmaṇas  in India neither offer them respect nor accept them as bona fide  sannyāsīs . Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu expected the so-called  brāhmaṇas  to offer respect to such  Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs . Nevertheless, it does not matter whether they offer respect, nor whether they accept these  sannyāsīs  as bona fide, for the  śāstra  describes punishment for such disobedient so-called  brāhmaṇas . The śāstric injuction declares:
devatā-pratimārh dṛṣṭvā 
    yatiṁ caiva tridaṇḍinam 
    namaskāraṁ na kuryād yaḥ 
    prāyaścittīyate naraḥ
“One who does not offer respect to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to His Deity in the temple or to a  tridaṇḍī sannyāsī  must undergo  prāyaścitta  (atonement).” If one does not offer obeisances to such a  sannyāsī , the prescribed  prāyaścitta  is to fast for one day.