Initiations

Prabhupāda: So your spiritual name is Abhirāma...?

Karandhara: Manobhirāma.

Prabhupāda: Manobhirāma. Manobhirāma. Manobhirāma is Kṛṣṅa. He pleases everyone's mind.

Devotees: Jaya. Haribol.

Karandhara: David? [break]

Prabhupāda: There is all neck beads, everyone? You knows the rules and regulation? [break] Dhanurdharī. [aside:] Not left. Yes. Dhanurdharī. Dhanurdharī is Lord Rāmacandra's name. [pause]

Karandhara: Gilbert? [to Prabhupāda:] Gambhīra.

Prabhupāda: Gambhīra. You know the rules and regulation? Here, take. Your spiritual name, Gambhīra dāsa, "very grave." That is Kṛṣṅa.

Karandhara: Bill?

Prabhupāda: [japa] [break] Bāṅke-bihārī.

Devotees: Oh, haribol.

Prabhupāda: Bāṅke means "curved." Kṛṣṅa stands always this. That is Bāṅke-bihārī.

Karandhara: Hannah?

Prabhupāda: He is not very straight, Kṛṣṅa. People are crooked, so He is the most crooked. [break]

Karandhara: Hari-sevakā.

Prabhupāda: Hari-sevikā. So, Hari-sevikā, Hari-sevikā, "maidservant of Kṛṣṅa."

Devotees: Jaya. [break]

Karandhara: Delores? [break]

Prabhupāda: Greedy for Kṛṣṅa. Tatra laulyam eka laulyam. To get Kṛṣṅa, you have only one price: to become greedy for Kṛṣṅa.

Devotees: Jaya!

Prabhupāda: That's all. That is the only... [break]... Tatra laulyam ekalaṁ mūlyaṁ na janma-koṭibhiḥ sukṛtibhir labhyate [Cc Madhya 8.70]. [break]

Karandhara: Vidya.

Prabhupāda: Divya. Divya. Your spiritual name is Divya. Divya means "spiritual." [pause]

Karandhara: Dhīra-sevā.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Karandhara: Dhīra-sevā.

Prabhupāda: Dhīra. Dhīra-sevā. Dhīra-lalitā. Dhīra-sevā? No. Dhīra-sevī. She is woman. [to devotee:] You know all the rules and regulation? Yes. Your name is Dhīra-sevī. Kṛṣṅa is Dhīra. Dhīra-lalitā.

Karandhara: Sajjana-jīvana.

Prabhupāda: Sajjana-jīvana. You know rules and regulation?

Devotee: No meat-eating, no [indistinct].

Prabhupāda: Yes. Sajjana-jīvana. Sajjana-jīvana. Life is very gentle.

So thank you very much. [devotees exclaim]

Now begin chanting and yajña. Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ [SB 11.5.32].

[In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of Kṛṣṅa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Kṛṣṅa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions.]

That is the yajña, saṅkīrtana.

Devotee: Hare Kṛṣṅa [end]