1970 - Prabhupada

. ,LA-1-70#9 SB 6:1:19dd--9'. /''> • "dusitah. Just try to understand. Here it is said that in aKanyakubja city . . • There is a city, now it is called, by the Britishperiod, it is now known as Kanauj, a city in the northern Indianear Kanpur city ...So that is very old city, because it is mentionedin the Srimad-Bhagavat, and Bhagavat was written five thousandyears ago.So it means that city is famous since five thousandyears ago, and it was inhabited by learned brahmanas.So here it issaid, kanyakubje dvijah kascid.Dvijah, dvijah means brahmanas,ksatriyas and vaisyas.Especially it is meant the brahmanas and theVaisnavas.Just like in this m'rning we had ceremony, initiation.The second ceremony will be for offering sacred thread.So one whohas got this sacred thread, he is called dvijah, twice-born. Twiceborn.Once born by the father and mother, and the next birth isgiven by the spiritual master and Vedic literature.Vedic literatureis the mother and the spiritual master is the father.As inevery birth the necessity of father and mother is there, similarly,in this birth also, spiritual rebirth, there is necessity of motherand father.The mother is this Vedic knowledge, and the father isthe spiritual master.So there was a dvijah, dvijah means he wasborn in the family of a brahmana. And he was sanctified also. Fromthe life history of this man we understand that in his early agewhen he was up to his youthful life, sixteen or seventeen or up totwenty years, he was very well behaved boy.He was under the careof his father and mother, and how by bad association he became adebauch, that is stated here.It is stated that, kanyak ubje dvijahkascid asit dasi-patir ajamilah.Ajamilah, his name was Ajamila,and he was a brahmana.But he contacted some woman which is called