Brahminical qualities emerge through practice and realization, not birthright; initiated devotees must embody them despite material world opposition.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation Ceremony of Viṣṇujana — March 24, 1968, San Francisco 680324IN-SAN FRANCISCO [52:46 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [japa] Nama. Viṣṇujana: Nama.
Prabhupāda: ...viṣṇu [Viṣṇujana repeats each word] pādāya kṛṣṇa preṣṭhāya bhū-tale śrīmate bhaktivedānta svāmin iti nāmine. You chant beginning from here, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Then begin again, another. In this way, there are 108.
Come this side. Don't cross. Then again chant on this side from this way to this way. Your name is Viṣṇujana.
Viṣṇujana. V-i-s-n-u-j-a-n-a. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
[indistinct] [break] The brahminical qualifications is described in the Bhagavad-gītā: satyam śauca śama dama titikṣa ārjavam, jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam [Bg. 18.42]. [Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge, and religiousness—these are the qualities by which the brāhmaṇas work.] Those who are actually brāhmaṇas, they must be truthful, always clean, inside and outside. Truthful, clean, and controlling the senses, śama dama, controlling the mind, controlling the senses, controlling the mind; śama dama titikṣa, tolerance, titikṣa, tolerance; ārjavam, simplicity; and jñānam, must be profoundly wise; vijñānam, practical application in life; jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyam, full faith in scriptures and in God, or Kṛṣṇa, āstikyam. Brahma-karma svabhāva-jam: "These are natural duties, or work, of a brāhmaṇa." And in the Bhagavad-gītā you will find in another place, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ [Bg. 4.13]. [According to the three modes of material nature and the work ascribed to them, the four divisions of human society were created by Me. And, although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the non-doer, being unchangeable.] "These four classes of classification of the society, it is made by Me." That means this classification of society in the human society, that is made by God.
What is that classification? The brāhmaṇa, the kṣatriya, the vaiśya and the śūdra. It is not the name, but it is guṇa-karma. Brāhmaṇa means quality and work, kṣatriya means quality and work, and vaiśya means quality and work.
There is no question of birthright. It is a false proposition that a brāhmaṇa's son becomes brāhmaṇa. No, not necessarily. If he properly becomes initiated under the guidance of a spiritual master, then he is brāhmaṇa. Otherwise, if he has acquired the qualities of a śūdra, then he should be considered as a śūdra.