1. Kanistha, madhyama, uttama-adhikara

    Our attempt should be from kanistha-adhikara to madhyama-adhikara.

    Madhyama-adhikara means preacher. Unless one comes to the madhyama-adhikara, he cannot preach. Because in the uttama-adhikara there is no need of preaching, because uttama-adhikara, he sees everything good. He does not think anyone is lacking Krsna consciousness. He says everyone is Krsna con… “Simply I am not Krsna conscious.” Just like Kaviraja Gosvami says, purisera kita haite muni sei lagistha [Cc. Adi 5.205]. He sees himself lower than the worm in the stool… But he’s not so, but he thinks like that.

    So uttama-adhikari, it is not to be imitated. One must keep himself in the madhyama-adhikari stage. Madhyama-adhikari stage means that one knows what is Krsna, isvara; one knows who is Krsna’s devotee. Isvare tad-adhinesu. And one knows who is innocent, neither devotee nor nondevotee, and he knows who is nondevotee. This is preaching.

    From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on The Nectar of Devotion — November 4, 1972, Vrndavana