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Activities of Kapila
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sinful activities, then what is to be said of those persons who see Him face to face?
Another consideration here is that persons who are purified by the process of chanting and hearing become immediately eligible to perform Vedic sacrifices. Generally, only a person who is born in a family of  brāhmaṇas , who has been reformed by the ten kinds of purificatory processes, and who is learned in Vedic literature is allowed to perform the Vedic sacrifices. But here the word  sadyaḥ , “immediately,” is used, and Śrīdhara Svāmī also remarks that one can  immediately  become eligible to perform Vedic sacrifices. A person born in a family of the low caste which is accustomed to eat dogs is so positioned due to his past sinful activities, but by chanting or hearing once in pureness or in an offenseless manner, he is immediately relieved of the sinful reaction. Not only is he relieved of the sinful reaction, but immediately he achieves the result of all purificatory processes. Taking birth in the family of a  brāhmaṇa  is certainly due to pious activities in one’s past life. But still a child who is born in a family of a  brāhmaṇa  depends for his further reformation upon initiation into acceptance of a sacred thread and many other reformatory processes. But a person who chants the holy name of the Lord, even if born in a family of  caṇḍālas , dog-eaters, does not need reformation. Simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, he immediately becomes purified and becomes as good as the most learned  brāhmaṇa .
Śrīdhara Svāmī especially remarks in this connection,  anena pūjyatvam lakṣyate . Some caste  brāhmaṇas  remark that by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, purification  begins . Of course, that depends on the individual process of chanting, but this remark of Śrīdhara Svāmī’s is completely applicable if one chants the holy name of the Lord without offense, for he immediately becomes more than a  brāhmaṇa . As Śrīdhara Svāmī says,  pūjyatvam : he immediately becomes as respectable as a most learned  brāhmaṇa  and can be allowed to perform Vedic sacrifices. If by simply chanting the holy name of the Lord one becomes sanctified instantly, then what can be said of those persons who see the Supreme Lord face to face and who understand the descent of the Lord as Devahūti understands Kapiladeva.
Usually, initiation depends on the bona fide spiritual master, who directs the disciple. If he sees that a disciple has become competent and purified by the process of chanting, then he offers the sacred thread to the disciple just so that he will be recognized as one hundred percent equal with a  brāhmaṇa . This is also confirmed in the  Hari-bhakti-vilāsa  by Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī: “As a base metal like bell metal can be changed into gold by a chemical process, similarly any person can be changed into a  brāhmaṇa  by  dīkṣā-vidhāna , the initiation process.”