Though Srila Prabhupada wanted varnasrama dharma to take place and thus advocated major social change, he also intimated that people have to be judged by their quality and work, rather than by their birth. He clearly distinguished between the desiccated shell of varnasrama (the caste system) and daivi varnasrama dharma. He brings this out in many places, like this statement from the purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 9.l6.24: “One’s status does not depend upon birth. As confirmed in Srimad Bhagavatam (7.11.35) by Narada: yasya yal laksanam proktam, pumso varnabhivyanjakam yad anyatrapi drsyeta tat tenaiva vinirdiset ‘If one shows the symptoms of being a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sudra, even if he has appeared in a different class, he should be accepted according to those symptoms of classification.’ To know who is a brahmana and who is a ksatriya, one must consider a man’s quality and work.”