Initiation in Vrindavan

Global mission of Caitanya Mahaprabhu

0:01Prabhupāda: ...that we [indistinct] accepted devotees from any part of the world. Kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ SB 2.4.18Just immediately we initiated a devotee, Bhṛgu Muni dāsa. He is from Iran.

0:29So Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission is this, that CC Antya 4.126সিংহদ্বারে যাইতে মোর নাহি অধিকার ।বিশেষে — ঠাকুরের তাহাঁ সেবকের প্রচার ॥ ১২৬ ॥siṁha-dvāre yāite mora nāhi adhikāraviśeṣe — ṭhākurera tāhāṅ sevakera pracāra“I have no right to pass by the Siṁha-dvāra, for the servants of Jagannātha are always coming and going there.

0:38Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted that in every village and every town on the surface of the globe should at least hear Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. So what is your country?

1:01Devotee (1): The United States.

1:02Prabhupāda: The United States. United States, of course, it is going on. In Brazil, other countries, now they spreading. So do it very nicely. What is that?

1:14Devotee (2): Parama-karuṇa.

1:15Prabhupāda: Parama-karuṇa dāsa. Come on.

1:18Devotees: Jaya. Haribol. [break] CC Madhya 19.53নমো মহাবদান্যায় কৃষ্ণপ্রেমপ্রদায় তে ।কৃষ্ণায় কৃষ্ণচৈতন্যনাম্নে গৌরত্বিষে নমঃ ॥ ৫৩ ॥namo mahā-vadānyāyakṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya tekṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ“O most munificent incarnation! You are Kṛṣṇa Himself appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and You are widely distributing pure love of Kṛṣṇa. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.[Hindi?]

1:24Prabhupāda: Huh? And the name?

Purpose of initiation and human life

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1:42Those who are initiated this evening, I have several times explained what is the meaning of initiation. Initiation means beginning of receiving transcendental knowledge.

1:59In the Vedas it is enjoined that in order to understand the transcendental science, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.2.12The human form of life is meant for understanding transcendental knowledge.

2:29In the Vedānta-sūtra it is said, athāto brahma jijñāsā. This human form of life is meant for inquiring about the Absolute Truth. So everyone should be interested to understand the Absolute Truth.

Awakening souls in the Kali age

2:51But this is Kali-yuga. Practically nobody is interested. The symptoms of Kali-yuga is mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ SB 1.1.10

3:08They are very slow or all bad, mandāḥ. And even if one is little anxious, he is victimized by some false way.

3:24Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo. And manda-bhāgyā. Therefore preaching is required to awaken them to spiritual consciousness. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to awaken the victimized soul to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

3:50Kṛṣṇa personally comes to awaken this consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja BG 18.66Similarly, Kṛṣṇa's servants, they also try to do the same business on behalf of Kṛṣṇa.

Service of the Krishna conscious preacher

4:14Therefore Kṛṣṇa recognizes such preachers as very, very dear to Him. Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścid me priya-kṛttamaḥ BG 18.69So the whole world is suffering for want of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

4:33So those who are initiated, they should decide that "In this life we shall simply serve Kṛṣṇa." That should be the... Dṛḍha-vratāḥ. Bhajanti māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ BG 7.28So this is the...

Overcoming sinful life through chanting

4:57Initiation means beginning.

4:57Now, if you follow the rules and regulation—no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication up to the drinking of tea and smoking and chewing pān. So these are considered as the four pillars of sinful life.

5:25So nobody can approach Kṛṣṇa with sinful activities. That is not possible. BG 7.28येषां त्वन्तगतं पापं जनानां पुण्यकर्मणाम् ।ते द्वन्द्वमोहनिर्मुक्ता भजन्ते मां दृढव्रताः ॥२८॥yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpaṁjanānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇāmte dvandva-moha-nirmuktābhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥPersons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life and whose sinful actions are completely eradicated are freed from the dualities of delusion, and they engage themselves in My service with determination.

5:44So if you are actually serious, approaching Kṛṣṇa—He is paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramam BG 10.12—you have to cleanse yourself from all sinful activities.

6:01So therefore we request everyone to give up these habits = illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. Then he becomes gradually purified. And if he chants Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra... Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam CC Antya 20.12

6:24One side, he should personally endeavor, and other side, he should chant, ceto-darpaṇa, the method of cleansing the heart.

6:36So we have got many śāstric evidences how one can become completely sinless simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and observing very strictly the four prohibitive rules and regulations.

6:59I hope those who are initiated today, you have promised before Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma Deity, before Vaiṣṇava and before the fire to give up these habits and do not take to...

7:20Even if you are practiced now, you do not take it again. This is the process of Caitanya Mahāprabhu's initiation. Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared to deliver all the sinful men.

7:42Pāpī tāpī yata chilo, harināme uddhārilo, tāra sākṣī jagāi and mādhāi. Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura said that "Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu so merciful that He delivered all kinds of sinful men," pāpī tāpī, "all types of suffering from material disease." And what is the medicine?

8:07Pāpī tāpī yata chilo, harināme uddhārilo. And evidence? Tāra sākṣī jagāi and mādhāi. You see Jagāi-Mādhāi. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited one example, to deliver Jagāi-Mādhāi.

8:28Jagāi-Mādhāi means they were born in a very aristocratic brāhmaṇa family, but by bad association they became illicit sex, woman-hunter, drunkards and meat-eaters and gamblers.

8:44But Caitanya Mahāprabhu, through the mercy of Nityānanda Prabhu, delivered them. And the only promise was that "You promise no more this sinful life.

9:01Then I accept you." So if we give up our sinful activity, immediately Caitanya Mahāprabhu takes you.

9:08There is no condition, because in this age everyone is addicted to sinful life, but he simply promises that "Henceforward I shall not act anything sinfully," these four principles.

9:25Then you go back to home, back to Godhead. Thank you very much.

9:29Devotees: Jaya Prabhupāda.

9:31Prabhupāda: Where is the hat[?] Give some. Yes, give him five rupees. You have got? [Hindi] [kirtan] [end]