Initiation Lecture | Aug 7, 2022 | Vancouver | Srila Gopal Krishna Goswami

It may perform in the presence of the Lordship, in the realm of the Lord, more retired, whereas in the world of Dharma, the Baba is similar to Vaishnava Lord, and they serve Him very well. So in this room, Guruji, Guruji Kṛṣṇa is present with any human. Nādamuni tells us, Jesus, that the life of a being has three births. How many? Three. The first is the womb of a mother. This birth is called sviṣeṣvara. The second birth is the life The second was the reality, the one that initiated it, did a chanting like Hare Krishna. The third was the reality, that all the body gets saved, not only the initiated. The fourth, fourth was the reality, he would have said this in the other one. So when they celebrate today, Shri Prasad Raaval Day, Why is it written in second word? And because it is second word, this is giving you— you're going to get a spiritual name. That spiritual name, that nāsa-nāsi-devīya. Nāsa-nāsi-devīya means servant. We are servants of the Lord, servants of the devotee. We want to live spiritual life, we want to master becomes spiritual, become a spiritual life. To me, same with this, the word is called shoka jnana. In Sanskrit, the word shoka means to melt. Shoka jnana means both is a result of negation, but it is both. How to remain as a Dhamma? The second quality that I would like to initiate, will change the outlook towards life. In the next one moment, this evening is only given, but you will understand that in waiting, you do an analysis of What a nice woman she is, ma. You want to see qualification? Why is she making up my life, by the way? You are a very good, good husband, good wife, very brave. So all of you who are coming in contact with this woman, you are very fortunate. You are very fortunate because you have to respect Knowledge, the idea of working without a body, without a presence. Now your bodyhood life is required when you move. You hear me? Your bodyhood life is required when you get away from poison. English is very important for us. My English is not so good. He was so fond of it. He tells, "Sir, this is poison, will kill you." They say,— we come in one hand, there is another, we throw everything, and then the book, and then we put it back. So we hope that all of you who are taking English in, please respond to me. It is good. Papa is good. No one taking initiation, just to show off. Everywhere I go, people are looking. Very, very good. Very good. Most, most good. The human life is enough. Very good. Broadly speaking, the President of the United States, President Bush, was the first one. That is those who made it in life, who gained in the Philippines, there is no vice or no honor. The rich, the rich, the rich, the rich. The men are the men. Walking into a beautiful garden. You really imagine that within a few hours it would happen, everything would get simple. So, my wish for Prasad: regain that spiritual life, regain that chanting, and that impact. You should avoid that. And then, this is in the introductory part, we enjoy like this, Who are the living gods?

Who?

The representatives. The living Mother, Father, Children, Spirit. They are not equal to the Lord, nor are they above the Lord. They are equal. You are equal. There are many Ishwaras. There is That's like we pour water in the root of the tree, all the branches get nourished. We have to pray the whole body become big. Is that right? Then it just moves in, rest of the body gets The scriptures describe when you take shelter of one of my devotees, and the one who has been to the Brahmajnana sets the example and gives you an insight. It is out of the blue, it is out of the blue. That's what I mean here. I want you to stay there.— made in me. And the spiritual master teaches by example. He gave this nice story. Once a mother took her child to a doctor. When his mother— there was a very young boy, very, very happily. Mother would tell him every day, 'Stop taking sugar.' He got angry. But the boy couldn't do that. The mother was just— she went to the family guru. Guruji, please bless him. Please bless him. One tree he should eat. Guruji said, 'Come back in 2 weeks.' Then 2 weeks went by. You already should have— you see, that's the beauty. If you were going to just declare that, this problem, you would have done that 2 weeks ago. Many of you may be gone now. 2 weeks ago, everything should have already been Choose a word which you also understand. It doesn't matter what it is. Moving in love, like he likes to attend, and they're listening. So we're listening. No, the whole year is about this. Publicly I chant Hare Krishna, but privately I chant, "You can't lose your love." Nothing we can do. We may have little faith, The Chennakkan language of my mother, known as Chinnukkuzhu, meaning the back of the leg. The next day, my brother started the movement. He wanted to go into—

move around.

They couldn't do that. They were busy. He refused to do this. He began to move the safety valve, and my mother— somebody who was good to her— very critical chance to support other people. But if you know that, I think this is another thing that you do. In effect, you're holding in your chin and your chin muscles, and you're holding in, in the mahāmudra. We should not commit sin, unless it's in the future. We should not do— would not meditate all night, since they were good. I had not been infected by the plague, and I did not want to get infected. Mr. Vijayananda, we all want to see you. He had moved back to our ashram here last night. He said it was very good to see you. And so on. We reached here all of a sudden. But no one would No more sinning. We can't stay here sinning. Krishna Prasad said, "Please describe to me, what was the devotion?" He said, "You have already given anything to mature the, you know, the healing temple." Next day, takes a bath in the river. He then becomes one with the lake, sits in the lake. I'm not interested in this knowledge. He is sitting in the pool. I'm not interested in it. He cleanses the heart, gets rid of the itchiness, and calls the Buddha. That's real homeward state. Then, 'Shenya' meaning not karma pendak. Karma pendak, you may have heard, there's sort of business in the yoga. He said, 'I will do this, you should do this,' actually. We are teaching a path, one discount path. Krishna bhagavan is karma, adhira shantam. Mukti mukti buddhi gamah, sattva adhira shantam. Nishchidha shatvam idham, yād ashti. Those who serve the Lord, then it's karma attitude. They remind the other people. Those who are immortal, then they will feel. So, we want to give Do it of much service to the Lord. Then we can give glory to Jesus and the Lord will be pleased. We should not be the messengers of bliss. Don't forget that. You can tell everybody chanting, if you can, but the deep meaning of the chant, maybe you can read it. I'm going to put it in English, right? "Samaṇṇaṇupāda." That's like, you meet a man on the street, He said, "What's your name?" He gave his name. "How much money do you have in the bank?" He gave his name. "How many people are working in your room?" Then he gave his name. Then, "Maintain mutual attachment by attending the Holy Day." We come to Rishikesh and we are educated to understand what is good, what is bad, what is good, what is not good. We come to Rishikesh and I see that's what Baba was giving us. How is he cooking a message? Based on game, movie, and yoga demonstration. What is that meant now? Should be voice. Thank God. I would commute there. Should be commute. But, we just stand there all day, attentively. What does it mean by attentive chanting? Attentive chanting doesn't mean that you don't worry. Mind may wander. We are hearing about it. One thing we can do He said, "Here, Master, some type of watch and dial." And he then prayed, "Let me do Japa, let's chant together. My morning is a terrible morning. You can make my day for sure." So, we always attempt this. The solution will be, nobody is forgetting the very essence. The canon is having initially, with our Prophet, everything invented, can be Vijayana and many more. All the preachers of that rule, for serving the Lord, we serve the Lord, we chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna. He also basically— qualities of Brahman mentioned in 18th chapter of Gita. No need to know more than anything else. You have to do what you think. That will be your nature. Your brotherhood. Nature means when we are born, innocent boy and mother having a baby, then we are born. So we hold that All human ignorance, poverty, stupidity, you will be determined to pursue spirituality. You want to be free spiritually, you want to be determined. You are not going to be free when this battle ends. If you want to reach Buddha, you go to heaven. That is another thing. I am not going to tell. Then Buddha descended and then this, the ghost. You only get as I grow. Many people, you need determination. You have to push your body. Religious and pastoral, missionary, sermon, teaching scripts. Also many, many Prasad books. Prasad ordered these books distributed and read, not just distributed. Unfortunately, we only had a few at which point we read Prasad books silently. You will understand what is Krishna now. Internally you will not struggle. You are holding in, acting in contention with the book, by the way, the whole book, nothing else. So, now are you serious about initiation? Yes or no? Yes.

They say it loudly.

Yes.

What an idiot would you do?

You want this thing?

You do it? Yes?

No? No?

Yes? No one understands English. So what is it? I don't believe you have any tough time. Being celebrated for the deity, he walked 2,000 kilometers. He knows his Guru's name, he knows his deity's name. Being celebrated for our Mother Mother, we are ready to do it.

Yes, thank you.

What is it? What is it?

What is it? What is it?

'Aparīsti prasād rūpam nādaṇvāḥ.' Nādaṇvāḥ is the answer to the question, 'Be the Brahman of the world.' 'Be the creator of the world.' 'Be the maker of everything.' 'Be the giver of being and name.' Yes. This is known as 'life track.' Sātya.

We'll call 5 names at a time. Please get up in order of your name being called.

Gosvāmānanda.

Then you come to Janardan Mahaj.

Speak loudly.

And then you come to Janardan Mahaj, and then you'll go to Gurmaj.

We're going to call the name.

Anil Singh. Dave Narayan.

Yuri Don't touch their feet, Prabhuji.

Don't touch their feet.

Bhai, Anna. Don't touch the feet.

No, no, don't touch the feet.

You confuse me. Uh, please come in the order that you're called. Anita, Anshu, Gurangi, Poonam, Rashmi, and Sakshi. Shall I go in there, Prabhu?

You can start the yajña. You can start the yajña.

5 minutes, Prabhu. Hai bol, Prabhu.

5 minutes.

Devi Das.

So we're going to be starting the yagya now. The canon is to have a plate with some greens, and we're not going to actually offer the greens directly in the fire. We'll take a few, a little pinch, put it on one empty container, take it from the container that has food and put it into the empty container. Each time we say Swaha, we take the grains and offer it to the other side. And then at the end, we'll come up. You'll also notice there's a banana on your plate. At the end, we'll take any extra grains and offer it into the fire. There's always one shloka that I always chant before a sacrifice, and to me it's very important. Mantras kas mantras kas chitam, deśa kalaraha vastuhu, sarum kuru tīmiṣkār anu saikṛtamā tava. Basically what this is saying, I'll read the translation. There may be discrepancies in pronouncing the mantras and observing the regulative principles, and moreover, there may be discrepancies in regard to time place, person, and paraphernalia. But when Your Holy Name, when Your Lordship's Holy Name is chanted, everything becomes baldness. So, certainly, I'm feeling very honored to be able to be here and perform this yajña for You. In the presence of His Holiness, my Gurudeva, Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja. And at the same time, I'm feeling very unqualified, and certainly there will be a lot of discrepancies. So, whenever there is a līl, we request everyone to make it even more auspicious to please chant the Holy Name, the Hare Kṛṣṇa Mahāmāntara.

Hare Krishna!

Hare Krishna!

So we're going to make a formal declaration, and it's called a sankalpa , and it determines what gotra the performer is from. And our guru, Śrīla Prabhupāda's instructor, is our guru, is the Acharya Tukuraja. There are different samskaras, and each samskara has a different name. This is an initiation samskara, so the name is upanayana. And each samskara has a different sacrifice, a different agni potra. So there's also a specific name for this Agni Hotra, and we're going to mention that in a few minutes.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Hare Hare, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.

Now we're going to call us to sit in prayer.

Om Samudra Namah Ne, Ichaha Atne Kom, Samudra Namasi.

Invite the fire to come and stay.

Now we'll perform aarti.

The fire is actually Vishnu. He's present in the fire, and we're going to offer the aarti.

I've invited Markadeesh to come and offer the aarti. So I want that. Okay, and I really, I just tell everyone that you're the only person around here, I guess, not that people, but everyone else is really on my toes. Yeah, this way you feel rich by doing that. Prasad Raaval asked me to do this program one Shobha month before his birthday because he's 50 years old today. So I thank you very much for asking me based on the guidance we received from many devotees that—

uh, to do a program called Shivamrta Mantra.

Hare Krishna.

Hare Krishna.

Now, even though we do not have the brains to offer, but Prabhupada says, in this Kali Yuga, we can mentally offer ourselves, so you will get the highest benefits. So please, all of you, when they are going to call to say, "Swaha," please mentally offer yourself. Separating the fire. So, thank you. Hare Krishna.

The seed itself is pure.

You can use water for purifying. You can use fire for purifying. You can use air for purifying. So, going off the first key, we're going to say suava, but don't offer the prayers on this first one. Just start the mantras to do on those suavas.

Om Bhur Bhur Bhur Bhur Bhur. Idam Vishnare Idam.

We're going to say these together, so please repeat after me, and we'll call for the remains after each ritual.

Om Bhagavanam Nirmalanda Syam Janam Janam Jalabhaya Jaksu Punyatanu Ye Na Asvad Jiguru Devam. Saridutta, Ijana, Saritam, Vishnu Chaitanya, Nirmala Devi, Nirmala Devi, Jeevaram, Krishna Sadhak, Sadhak Deva, Navidham, Sri Vishwakanti Dhami, Chari Dhami, Dhami, Dhami. Namaste.