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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 4]
as follows: ( arcye viṣṇau śilādhīr guruṣu nara-matir vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhiḥ śrī-viṣṇor nāmni śabda-sāmānya-buddhiḥ, etc. ) “One should not consider the Deity of the Lord as worshiped in the temple to be an idol, nor should one consider the authorized spiritual master as an ordinary man. Nor should one consider a pure Vaiṣṇava to belong to a particular caste, etc.”
The conclusion is that the Lord, being all-powerful, can, under any and every circumstance, accept anyone from any part of the world, either personally or through His bona fide manifestation as the spiritual master. Lord Caitanya accepted many devotees from communities other than the  varṇāśramites , and He Himself declared, to teach us, that He does not belong to any caste or social order of life, but that He is the eternal servant of the servant of the Lord who maintains the damsels of Vṛndāvana (Lord Kṛṣṇa). That is the way of self-realization.
TEXT 19
स एष आत्मात्मवतामधीश्वर- स्त्रयीमयो धर्ममयस्तपोमयः। गतव्यलीङ्गैरजशङ्करादिभि- वितर्क्यलिङ्गो भगवान् प्रसीदताम् ॥१९॥
sa eṣa ātmātmavatām adhīśvaras trayīmayo dharmamayas tapomayaḥ gata-vyalīkair aja-śaṅkarādibhir vitarkya-liṅgo bhagavān prasīdatām
saḥ—He; esaḥ—it is; ātmā—Supersoul; ātmavatām—of the self-realized souls; adhīśvaraḥ—the Supreme Lord; trayīmayaḥ—personified Vedas; dharmamayaḥ—personified religious scripture; tapomayaḥ—personified austerity; gata-vyalīkaiḥ—by those who are above all pretensions; aja—Brahmājī; śaṅkara-ādibhiḥ—by Lord Śiva and others; vitarkya-liṅgaḥ—one who is observed with awe and veneration; bhagavān—the Personality of God-head; prasīdatām—be kind toward me.
TRANSLATION
He is the Supersoul and the Supreme Lord of all self-realized souls. He is the personification of the Vedas, religious scriptures and austerities. He