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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Antya-līlā, Ch. 3]
According to external vision, Haridāsa Thākura belonged to a Mohammedan family. Nevertheless, because he engaged himself in performing the  yajña  of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra , he became a regularly initiated  brāhmaṇa . As stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (3.33.6):
yaṇ-nāmadheya-śravaṇānukīrtanād yat-prahvaṇād yat-smaraṇād api kvacit śvādo 'pi sadyaḥ savanāya kalpate kutaḥ punas te bhagavan nu darśanāt
Even if a devotee comes from a family of dog-eaters, if he surrenders to the Personality of Godhead he immediately becomes a qualified  brāhmaṇa  and is immediately fit to perform  yajña , whereas a person born in a family of  brāhmaṇas  has to wait until completing the reformatory processes before he may be called  saṁskṛta , purified. It is further said in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (12.1.42):
asaṁskṛtāḥ kriyā-hīnā rajasā tamasāvṛtāḥ prajās te bhakṣayiṣyanti mlecchā rājanya-rūpiṇaḥ
“In the age of Kali,  mlecchas , or lowborn people who have not undergone the purifying process of  saṁskāra , who do not know how to apply that process in actual life and who are covered by the modes of passion and ignorance, will take the posts of administrators. They will devour the citizens with their atheistic activities.” A person who is not purified by the prescribed process of  saṁskāra  is called  asaṁskṛta , but if one remains  kriyā-hīna  even after being purified by initiation—in other words, if one fails to actually apply the principles of purity in his life—he remains an unpurified  mleccha  or  yavana . On the other hand, we find that Haridāsa Thākura, although born in a  mleccha  or  yavana  family, became Nāmācārya Haridāsa Thākura because he performed the  nāma-yajña  a minimum of 300,000 times every day.
Herein we find that Haridāsa Thākura strictly followed his regulative principle of chanting 300,000 times. Thus when the prostitute became restless, he informed her that first he had to finish his chanting and then he would be able to satisfy her. Actually Haridāsa Thākura chanted the holy name of the Lord for three nights continuously and gave the prostitute a chance to hear him. Thus she became purified, as will be seen in the following verses.
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সমস্ত রাত্রি নিলুঁ নাম সমাপ্ত না হৈল ॥ ১২৫ ॥