270 Sti Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 3
According to external vision, Haridasa Thakura belonged to a Mohammedan
family. Nevertheless, because he engaged himself in performing the yajfa of
chanting the Hare Krsna mahd-mantra, he became a regularly initiated brahmana.
As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.33.6):
yan-ndmadheya-sravananukirtanad
yat-prahvanad yat-smarandd api kvacit
svado ‘pi sadyah savanaya kalpate
kutah punas te bhagavan nu darsanat
Even if a devotee comes from a family of dog-eaters, if he surrenders to the Per-
sonality of Godhead he immediately becomes a qualified brahmana and is im-
mediately fit to perform yajiia, whereas a person born in a family of brahmanas
has to wait until completing the reformatory processes before he may be called
sarskrta, purified. It is further said in Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.1.42):
asamskrtah kriyd-hind
rajasd tamasavrtah
prajas te bhaksayisyanti
mleccha rajanya-rapinah
“In the age of Kali, mlecchas, or lowborn people who have not undergone the
purifying process of sarnskadra, who do not know how to apply that process in ac-
tual 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 ac-
tivities!’ A person who is not purified by the prescribed process of samskara is
called asarnskrta, but if one remains kriyd-hina even after being purified by initia-
tion—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 Haridasa Thakura, although born in a mleccha or yavana family, became
Namacarya Haridasa Thakura because he performed the ndma-yajfia a minimum
of 300,000 times every day.

Herein we find that Haridasa Thakura 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 Haridasa Thakura 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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