Question: How can we change our vision of the devotees and their place of birth? Is it ever acceptable to designate a devotee as “ Bengali bhakta” “Videshi bhakta”.

Jayapataka Swami: From the example of Lord Caitanya with Jagai and Madhai, that He restricted everyone from considering them by their former lives. Formerly they were drunkards, rogues, and all that, but now they were devotees of Lord Caitanya. So they should be accepted as that. Period. So similarly we should not consider a devotee by any material designation. sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam – the process of devotion is to be freed from all types of external designations, and thus one is considered as pure. Haribol!
26-OCTOBER-2019 SRIDHAM MAYAPUR, INDIA