A person who happens to take birth in the
family of a Brahman but is not qualified enough to be called a Brahmin is
addressed as the relative of a Brahmin (brahma-bandhu) and not as a Brahmin. The son of a High
court judge is not virtually a high court judge but there is no harm to address
a high court judge’s son, as a relative of the Hon. Justice. Therefore, as by
birth only one does not become a high court judge, so also one does not become
a Brahmin simply by birth right but by acquiring the necessary qualifications
of a Brahmin. As the high court judgeship is a post for the qualified man so
also the post of a Brahmin is attainable by qualification only. The Shastra enjoins that even if such good qualifications
are seen in a person born in a family of other than that of a Brahmin, the
qualified man has to be accepted as a Brahmin and similarly if a person born in
the family of a Brahmin, is void of brahminical qualification, then he must be
treated as a non-Brahmin or in better terms a relative of a Brahmin! Lord Sri
Krishna the Supreme Authority of all religious principles of the Vedas, has
personally pointed out this differences.
[The Bhaktivedanta
Purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 1.7.35]
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