Initiation Ceremony in Boston

0:00: Initiation of Baradrāj and Chandanācārya Type: Initiation Dated: May 4th 1969 Location: Boston Audio file: 690504IN-BOSTON.mp3

Introduction to mantra and japa meditation

0:01...rādhā śrīla govinda-devaupreṣṭhālībhiḥ sevyamānau smarāmi.

0:26In a temple of jewels in Vṛndāvana, underneath a desire tree, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda, served by Their most confidential associates, sit upon an effulgent throne. I offer my most humble obeisances unto Them.

0:32CC Adi 1.17শ্রীমান্‌ রাসরসারম্ভী বংশীবটতটস্থিতঃ ।কর্ষন্‌ বেণুস্বনৈর্গোপীর্গোপীনাথঃ শ্রিয়েঽস্তু নঃ ॥ ১৭ ॥śrīmān rāsa-rasārambhīvamśīvaṭa-taṭa-sthitaḥkarṣan veṇu-svanair gopīrgopī-nāthaḥ śriye 'stu naḥŚrī Śrīla Gopīnātha, who originated the transcendental mellow of the rāsa dance, stands on the shore in Vaṁśīvaṭa and attracts the attention of the cowherd damsels with the sound of His celebrated flute. May they all confer upon us their benediction.Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare HareHare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.

6:01"My dear Lord, and the spiritual energy of the Lord, kindly engage me in Your service. I am now embarrassed with this material service. Please engage me in Your service."

6:06Prabhupāda: All right. Chant. [devotees chant japa] Give me your beads. [japa] Is it tight? It must be tight?

7:41Devotee: It must be tight?

8:09Prabhupāda: Yes. [japa] Begin from here.

Initiation vows and spiritual instructions

8:36Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Then take next. In this way you'll come this side. You don't cross this. Again from..., begin here, and come to this.

8:51Such sixteen rounds must be done every day. Your spiritual name is Chandanācārya dāsa. Chandanācārya. C-h-a-n-d-a-n-c-h-a-r-y-a dāsa. Chandanācārya, a great preacher of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.

9:14So you are servant of that. You have to preach very nicely. Bow down. nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-taleśrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine

9:40I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.

9:59Now chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and be happy. Take this.

10:05Lady devotee: Haribol. [japa]

10:05Prabhupāda: You could not secure like that? This is all right. [japa] Put in your bag and do... [japa] Begin from here, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Next.

16:31In this way come to this point, again like that.

Regulative principles and formal initiation rites

16:33And where is that chart, the ten kinds of offenses and the regulative principles?

16:39Haṁsadūta: I have it in Montreal.

16:41Lady devotee: They have.

16:44Haṁsadūta: They have that. They already have that, Prabhupāda. Yes.

16:58Prabhupāda: You must give them copies. Is there any name Madana-mohana dāsa? Yes? There is? So his name should be Baradrāj. B-a-r-a-d, Baradrāj, r-a-j, Baradrāj. Baradrāj is another name of Lord Viṣṇu. Baradrāj dāsa Brahmacārī. All right.

17:15Just bow down. Bow down. Bow down. nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-taleśrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine

18:02I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.

19:39All right. Take your beads. Be happy. Baradrāj. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [japa] Chant. [japa] Keep it there. You can keep it. [japa] [to devotees]

19:41Śāradīyā: You want to move a little closer?

19:41Prabhupāda: You can keep it.

19:41Candanācārya: Put it down?

19:41Prabhupāda: Yes.

Fire sacrifice and purification prayers

20:50Nama... You take little, little, everyone, and when I say svāhā, you put it.

20:55Satsvarūpa: Prabhupāda? Is Śāradīyā dāsī going to take Gāyatrī?

21:00Prabhupāda: Gāyatrī... So where is that mantra sheet? Then I'll give you after. That's all. nama apavitraḥ pavitro vāsarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vāyaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁsa bahyābhyantara śuciḥ[Garuḍa Purāṇa] śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu

22:04I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.

22:04CC Antya 2.1বন্দেঽহং শ্রীগুরোঃ শ্রীযুতপদকমলং শ্রীগুরূন্ বৈষ্ণবাংশ্চ শ্রীরূপং সাগ্রজাতং সহগণরঘুনাথান্বিতং তং সজীবম্ ।সাদ্বৈতং সাবধূতং পরিজনসহিতং কৃষ্ণচৈতন্যদেবং শ্রীরাধাকৃষ্ণপাদান্ সহগণললিতা-শ্রীবিশাখান্বিতাংশ্চ ॥ ১ ॥vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāmś caśrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvamsādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁśrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāmś caI offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master and of all the other preceptors on the path of devotional service. I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaiṣṇavas and unto the six Gosvāmīs, including Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Jīva Gosvāmī and their associates. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Advaita Ācārya Prabhu, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and all His devotees, headed by Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura. I then offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and all the gopīs, headed by Lalitā and Viśākhā.

22:36svāhā, svāhā, svāhā

22:36Devotees: Careful, careful.

22:36Prabhupāda: Here. Not at me.

22:36Haṁsadūta: Not at Prabhupāda! nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-taleśrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāminesvāhā, svāhā, svāhā

22:36I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.

22:36nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-taleśrīmate bhaktisiddhānta-sarasvatīti nāmine

22:36I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.

Devotional prayers to the gosvamis and deities

22:37śrī-vārṣabhānavī-devī-dayitāya kṛpābdhayekṛṣṇa-sambandha-vijñāna-dāyine prabhave namaḥ

22:37I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrī Vārṣabhānavī-devī-dayita dāsa [another name of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī], who is favored by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and who is the ocean of transcendental mercy and the deliverer of the science of Kṛṣṇa.

22:37mādhuryojjvala-premāḍhya-śrī-rūpānuga-bhaktida-śrī-gaura-karuṇā-śakti-vigrahāya namo 'stu te

22:37I offer my respectful obeisances unto you, the personified energy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mercy, who delivers devotional service enriched with conjugal love of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, coming exactly in the line of revelation of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.

30:22namas te gaura-vāṇī-śrī-mūrtaye dīna-tāriṇerūpānuga-viruddhāpasiddhānta-dhvānta-hāriṇe

30:29svāhā, svāhā, svāhā

30:29I offer my respectful obeisances unto you, who are the personified teachings of Lord Caitanya. You are the deliverer of the fallen souls. You do not tolerate any statement against the teachings of devotional service enunciated by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.

30:30namo gaura-kiśorāya sākṣād-vairāgya-mūrtayevipralambha-rasāmbhodhe pādāmbujāya te namaḥ

30:31svāhā, svāhā, svāhā

30:31I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja [the spiritual master of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī], who is renunciation personified. He is always merged in a feeling of separation and intense love of Kṛṣṇa.

30:31namo bhaktivinodāya sac-cid-ānanda-nāminegaura-śakti-svarūpāya rūpānuga-varāya te

30:32svāhā, svāhā, svāhā

30:32I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Saccidānanda Bhaktivinoda, who is the transcendental energy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He is a strict follower of the Gosvāmīs, headed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.

30:33gaurāvirbhāva-bhūmes tvaṁ nirdeṣṭā saj-jana-priyaḥvaiṣṇava-sārvabhaumaḥ śrī-jagannāthāya te namaḥ

30:33svāhā, svāhā, svāhā I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrīla Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, who is respected by the entire Vaiṣṇava community and who confirmed the discovery of the place where Lord Caitanya appeared.

30:34vāñchā-kalpatarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva capatitānāṁ pāvenebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ

30:34svāhā, svāhā, svāhā

30:34I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaiṣṇava devotees of the Lord. They are just like desire trees who can fulfill the desires of everyone, and they are full of compassion for the fallen conditioned souls.

30:35CC 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.

30:36svāhā, svāhā, svāhā CC Adi 1.14পঞ্চতত্ত্বাত্মকং কৃষ্ণং ভক্তরূপস্বরূপকম্‌ ।ভক্তাবতারং ভক্তাখ্যং নমামি ভক্তশক্তিকম্‌ ॥ ১৪ ॥pañca-tattvātmakaṁ kṛṣṇaṁbhakta-rūpa-svarūpakambhaktāvatāraṁ bhaktākhyaṁnamāmi bhakta-śaktikamI offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, who is nondifferent from His features as a devotee, devotional incarnation, devotional manifestation, pure devotee and devotional energy.svāhā, svāhā, svāhā

30:37he kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho dīna-bandho jagat-pategopeśa gopikā-kānta rādhā-kānta namo 'stu te

30:38svāhā, svāhā, svāhā

30:38O my dear Kṛṣṇa, O ocean of mercy, O friend of the distressed and the source of creation, O master of the cowherd men and the lover of the gopīs, especially Rādhārāṇī, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

30:39CC Adi 1.15জয়তাং সুরতৌ পঙ্গোর্মম মন্দমতের্গতী ।মৎসর্বস্বপদাম্ভোজৌ রাধামদনমোহনৌ ॥ ১৫ ॥jayatāṁ suratau paṅgormama manda-mater gatīmat-sarvasva-padāmbhojaurādhā-madana-mohanauGlory to the all-merciful Rādhā and Madana-mohana! I am lame and ill advised, yet They are my directors, and Their lotus feet are everything to me.

30:40svāhā, svāhā, svāhā dīvyad-vṛndāraṇya-kalpa-drumādhaḥ-śrīmad-ratnāgāra-siṁhāsana-sthauśrī-śrī-rādhā-śrīla-govinda-devaupreṣṭhālībhiḥ sevyamānau smarāmisvāhā, svāhā, svāhā

30:40In a temple of jewels in Vṛndāvana, underneath a desire tree, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda, served by Their most confidential associates, sit upon an effulgent throne. I offer my humble obeisances unto Them.

30:41CC Adi 1.17শ্রীমান্‌ রাসরসারম্ভী বংশীবটতটস্থিতঃ ।কর্ষন্‌ বেণুস্বনৈর্গোপীর্গোপীনাথঃ শ্রিয়েঽস্তু নঃ ॥ ১৭ ॥śrīmān rāsa-rasārambhīvamśīvaṭa-taṭa-sthitaḥkarṣan veṇu-svanair gopīrgopī-nāthaḥ śriye 'stu naḥŚrī Śrīla Gopīnātha, who originated the transcendental mellow of the rāsa dance, stands on the shore in Vaṁśīvaṭa and attracts the attention of the cowherd damsels with the sound of His celebrated flute. May they all confer upon us their benediction.

30:42svāhā, svāhā, svāhā tapta-kāñcana-gaurāṅgirādhe vṛndāvaneśvarivṛṣabhānu-sute devipraṇamāmi hari-priye

Concluding rituals and universal prayers

30:43svāhā, svāhā, svāhā I offer my respects to Rādhārāṇī, whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vṛndāvana. You are the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu, and You are very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

30:43Now each one, banana. Stand up. Namo brahmaṇya-devāya go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya ca... Stand up. CC Madhya 13.77নমো ব্রহ্মণ্যদেবায় গোব্রাহ্মণহিতায় চ ।জগদ্ধিতায় কৃষ্ণায় গোবিন্দায় নমো নমঃ ॥ ৭৭ ॥namo brahmaṇya-devāyago-brāhmaṇa-hitāya cajagad-dhitāya kṛṣṇāyagovindāya namo namaḥ“ ‘Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is the worshipable Deity for all brahminical men, who is the well-wisher of cows and brāhmaṇas, and who is always benefiting the whole world. I offer my repeated obeisances to the Personality of Godhead, known as Kṛṣṇa and Govinda.’Now put silently.

32:14Namo brahmaṇya-devāya go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya ca. hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare harehare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare

33:00O Śrīmāti Rādhārāṇī (the divine energy of the Lord Kṛṣṇa), O all-attractive reservoir of pleasure, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, please engage me in Your loving devotional service.

33:00Now bow down, namo oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya. [devotees offer obeisances] [end]