गुणैरुत्तमतां याति न तु जातिप्रभावतः।

गुणैरुत्तमतां याति न तु जातिप्रभावतः।

क्षीरोदधिसमुत्पन्नः कालकूतः किमुत्तमः॥

guṇairuttamatāṁ yāti na tu jātiprabhāvataḥ|

kṣīrodadhisamutpannaḥ kālakūtaḥ kimuttamaḥ||

A person, an article or things gets accepted as ideal and praiseworthy by virtue of his or its inherent merits and good qualities. He/ It cannot gain acceptability and respect merely on the basis of his/ its origin or place or birth or the name and fame of the clan of birth.

See, when the milky oceans was churned for Amritam, what first came out was the terrible venom Kalakoota which was capable of destroying the entire universe. Can anyone declare Kalakoota as the best and ideal thing just because it was born out of the great milky ocean ?