Ok, born in India is auspicious. I do not deny this. But it is in no way essential. and proof of this are the many successful Western female/male devotees.
Once a Western devotee in India was visiting a Temple and liked the Arati. Then he said to the Pujari of this temple that he would love to worship those Deities. The Pujari told him that for this he had to be born again in India. The devotee told this to Prabhupada. And Prabhupada told his Western disciple: "Next time tell him that if he wants to distribute books he will have to be born in the West." :D
"Sometimes a caste guru says that yei krsna-tattva-vettha, sei guru haya means that one who is not a brahmana may become a siksa-guru or a vartma-pradarsaka-guru
but not an initiator guru. According to such caste gurus, birth and family ties are considered foremost. However, the hereditary consideration is not acceptable to vaishnavas." (Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya 8.128, purport)
In our ''global village'' as long as it is a good devotee family it does not matter where one takes their next birth unless its Vrndavan or Mayapur, preaching is what is more important than where one takes birth and frankly being born in the West to preach is more glorious than being born in India, I agree with Gurukripa ''Maharaj''
It makes no difference where you are born or whether you were born into a family of meat eaters or what your skin color is or sexual preference or gender, etc. All these are designations of the body.
SP never ever stated that by chanting Hare Krsna, we would then take birth in India. Neither did he say that to be a guru, you needed to be born in India or born from a family of Brahmins or even Vaishnavas. These are all material considerations.
We have to have faith that the power of the Holy Names can transform anyone into a pure devotee. If someone somehow chants Hare Krsna, he is considered saintly. Even if he falls, he is still considered saintly and what is the prayascitta for a fallen devotee? Simply to again chant Hare Krsna!
Neither does Lord Caitanya, Rupa Gosvami, Jiva Gosvami, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, Bhaktivinoda Thakura or Srila Prabhupada say that one must first take birth in Indian in order to attain prema. Awakening or realizing your relationship with Krsna has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with where you were born. None of the acaryas teach that type of elitism. That is absurd and a very discouraging thing to propagate.
Whatever birth we have is just fine because Lord Chaitanya came for the most fallen...remember? Even Lord Krsna does not preach sectarian discrimination.In the Bhagavad Gita, He says that everyone is eligible to go Back to Home if they just take shelter of Him. You just do your prescribed duty and think of Krsna.
Now, of the two types of sadhana - vaidhi and raganuga - raganuga is like a rocket ship Back to Godhead and vaidhi is like a mule. The difference is the affection one has for Krsna when practicing raganuga. It is all about the affection. In vaidhi, the affection is mostly absent. It is done out of duty.
A raganuga bhakta isn't concerned with his next material birth because he is too busy meditating on his future spiritual body with which to serve Krsna directly.
Raganuga bhakti is a very esoteric aspect of KC, generally not well understood and often disregarded due to our poor fund of knowledge on the subject. It is, however, the crown jewel of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and the theme of so many of our acharyas writings.
