Initiations

Prabhupāda: [japa]

Aravinda: Yogamāyā dāsī.

Prabhupāda: Yogamāyā. Yogamāyā, the internal energy of Kṛṣṅa. You are the servant of internal energy. Come on. What are the rules and regulation?

Yogamāyā: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication.

Prabhupāda: So you agree?

Yogamāyā: [laughs] Yes.

Prabhupāda: All right. Come on. Next. [japa]

Aravinda: Chāyadevī dāsī.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Aravinda: Chāyadevī. Chāyadevī.

Prabhupāda: Chāyadevī. Chāyadevī. Chāyadevī means material nature. That is also Kṛṣṅa's energy, as acts according to the direction of Kṛṣṅa. Come on. You know the rules and regulation? All right.

Aravinda: Kaumadakī.

Prabhupāda: Kaumadakī, "born of lotus flower." Come on. Hare Kṛṣṅa. [japa]

Aravinda: Gandharvikā.

Prabhupāda: Gandharvikā. Another name of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī. Come on. You know the rules and regulation?

Gandharvikā: No illicit sex, no intoxication, no meat-eating, no gambling.

Prabhupāda: All right. Thank you. Right hand. Right hand you should... Yes.

Aravinda: Charaṅi.

Prabhupāda: Charaṅi, Charaṅi devī. Celestial singers. Come on. Hare Kṛṣṅa. You know the rules and regulation?

Charaṅi: Yes. No illicit sexual life, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling.

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṅa. Come on. [japa]

Aravinda: Kapindra.

Prabhupāda: Kapindra. Kapindra means Hanumānjī, servant of Lord Rāmacandra. Come on. You know the rules and regulation? That's all right.

Aravinda: Virendra.

Prabhupāda: Virendra. Virendra means Arjuna or Kṛṣṅa. Come on. The supreme hero. Virendra. [japa]

Aravinda: Surendra.

Prabhupāda: Surendra is also Kṛṣṅa's another name. Sura means gods, demigods, and the chief, the chief is Kṛṣṅa. Come on. [japa]

Aravinda: Viṣṅugadā.

Prabhupāda: Viṣṅu...?

Aravinda: Viṣṅugadā.

Prabhupāda: Viṣṅugadā. You know Viṣṅu has got the club? Śaṅkha cakra gadā padma. Gadā, the club. So you are that. [laughter] You have to punish all the demons.

Aravinda: Mahendra.

Prabhupāda: Mahendra. Mahā-indra. Mahā-indra is the heavenly king. Yas tu indra-gopa-mahā indra. There are two kinds of indra. One is a small insect, which is called indra-gopa, and beginning from this indra up to the mahā-indra, the king of heaven, they are all under the reaction of fruitive activities. Yas tv indra...

Yas tv indra-gopa-mahendra-mahā-sva-karma-phala-bhājanam āta... [Bs 5.54].

[I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, who burns up to their roots all fruitive activities of those who are imbued with devotion and impartially ordains for each the due enjoyment of the fruits of one's activities, of all those who walk in the path of work, in accordance with the chain of their previously performed works, no less in the case of the tiny insect that bears the name of indragopa than in that of Indra, king of the devas.]

Everyone is enjoying and suffering the result of his fruitive activities. Karmāṅi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām [Bs 5.54]. But those who are in devotional service, they have no reaction of their work, because they do not work for themselves. They are for Kṛṣṅa. Therefore there is no reaction.

So Mahendra means the greatest king within this universe. So because he is representative of Kṛṣṅa, therefore we accept him as one of the devotee. Hare Kṛṣṅa.

[aside:] Don't take this. [end]