Lord Krishna feels directly concerned with twice-born beings, also called civilized people. A civilized person is, in fact, one who is born a second time. The incarnate spiritual being is born into the material universe as a result of the union of a father and a mother in human beings, or of a male and a female in animals. Thus, a human being is born from the union of a father and a mother, but a civilized person is born a second time by coming into contact with an authentic spiritual master and true intimate servant of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, who then becomes their true father.

The father and mother engender the physical body and are such only for the duration of a single lifetime, for in the next life, the spiritual being will be born of new parents.

Twice-born individuals are easily recognized by the three principles of religion, also called the three essential factors of spirituality or the three spiritual qualities, which characterize them: purity, austerity, and compassion.

However, the authentic spiritual master and true representative of the Lord is considered the eternal father of the twice-born, for it is his responsibility to guide his disciple to spiritual salvation, to the ultimate goal of existence, that is, to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.

Consequently, to be considered a civilized person belonging to the upper echelons of society, one must necessarily be twice-born; otherwise, we are worth little more than an animal.

The Twice-Born.

This is why it is the duty of humankind to seize the opportunity to connect with Krishna's representative, the spiritual master, the authentic servant of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. Under the guidance of this spiritual father, one can then return to God, to his original abode. There, one will become “a twice-born.”

To be a twice-born is, through the grace of an authentic spiritual master, to access the spiritual knowledge of which Krishna is the original source and the Supreme Teacher. One becomes a twice-born upon receiving initiation from the spiritual master, whose disciple one then becomes. The authentic spiritual master transmits to his disciple the knowledge concerning the nature of the spiritual being, the ultimate reality.

The twice-born is the one who has emerged from oblivion, ignorance, and perdition, and who, through the knowledge of God as He truly is, of true eternal spiritual wisdom, of the knowledge of his true spiritual identity, and the acquisition of existential and absolute truth, becomes once again what he has always been: the servant of Krishna. He has thus entered into light and eternal life.