50 The Nectar of Instruction

This is the way to cultivate devotional service properly;
therefore in this verse Srila Rapa Gosvami has advised us
how to treat various devotees. We can see from practical ex-
perience that there are different types of Vaisnavas. The
prakrta-sahajiyds generally chant the Hare Krsna maha-
mantra, yet they are attached to women, money and intoxi-
cation. Although such persons may chant the holy name of
the Lord, they are not yet properly purified. Such people
should be respected within one’s mind, but their association
should be avoided. Those who are innocent but simply car-
ried away by bad association should be shown favor if they
are eager to receive proper instructions from pure devotees,
but those neophyte devotees who are actually initiated by the
bona fide spiritual master and are seriously engaged in
carrying out the orders of the spiritual master should be
offered respectful obeisances.

In this Krsna consciousness movement a chance is given
to everyone without discrimination of caste, creed or color.
Everyone is invited to join this movement, sit with us, take
prasdda and hear about Krsna. When we see that someone is
actually interested in Krsna consciousness and wants to be
initiated, we accept him as a disciple for the chanting of the
holy name of the Lord. When a neophyte devotee is actually
initiated and engaged in devotional service by the orders of
the spiritual master, he should be accepted immediately as a
bona fide Vaisnava, and obeisances should be offered unto
him. Out of many such Vaisnavas, one may be found to be
very seriously engaged in the service of the Lord and strictly
following all the regulative principles, chanting the
prescribed number of rounds on japa beads and always
