Srila Prabhupada began by refuting the mistaken idea of the prakrta-sahajiyas who think that Krsna's seemingly worldly activities, such as on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, are different from His dealings in His Vrndavana-lila. "They immediately jump to the Krsna-lila directly with the gopis. And Krsna's activities in other field, they think it is useless. But that is not the fact; anywhere Krsna is acting, that is transcendental. So superficially it appears that what a devotee has got to do with this battlefield? But battlefield or no battlefield, wherever there is Krsna, that is transcendental. This has to be understood. Otherwise Sukadeva Gosvami, why he should indulge in describing how Uttara's pregnancy was saved by Krsna, how the brahmastra was thrown by Asvattama? So Sukadeva Gosvami is liberated person, why he should indulge in these material things? No. Those who are advanced, they know that Krsna's dancing with the gopis, that lila and Krsna's playing as the leader of battlefield of Kuruksetra, is the same; it is all transcendental. One should not make any distinction between the two."
Prabhupada also refuted another misconception -- that so-called Western mlecchas cannot become purified Vaisnavas but will have to take another birth in a Hindu family before they can become pure. "Sometimes they say that unless the body is changed, how a candala can become purified? Yes, body is changing. Dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha. Tatha means 'like that.' Every moment we are changing our body. This is dehantara, Krsna says, the greatest authority. How you can say there is no dehantara? Suppose in my childhood I am born in a candala family. But if by initiation, by taking shelter of a pure devotee, I become initiated, so dehantara is there, going on. If I take initiation seriously, so in the next dehantara ... Not that somebody was European, or we take Europeans as mlecchas and yavanas. Yes, yesterday mleccha and yavanas, but he has changed his body, and after changing, if he's initiated, then sudhyanti, he's purified. So how this is possible we cannot understand, because Lord Visnu's energy is inconceivable. Unless you accept acintya-sakti of the Supreme Personality of Godhead you cannot understand; you have to accept. It is acintya, inconceivable, by us. But it is not inconceivable by the advanced devotees, or anything being executed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is not inconceivable by Him."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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just like how the sudra hunter ratnakar, a mleccha, became the great saint Valmiki and went on to write the amazing RAMAYANA, just by chanting RAMA nama under the guidance of his spiritual master, Narada muni.
Jai Srila Prabhupada!!