Initiations
Your spiritual name, Gambhīra dāsa, \"very grave.\" That is Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda:
So your spiritual name is Abhirāma…?
Karandhara:
Manobhirāma.
Prabhupāda:
Manobhirāma. Manobhirāma. Manobhirāma is Kṛṣṇa. 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 Kṛṣṇa.
Karandhara:
Bill?
Prabhupāda:
[japa] [break] Bāṅke-bihārī.
Devotees:
Oh, haribol.
Prabhupāda:
Bāṅke means “curved.” Kṛṣṇa stands always this. That is Bāṅke-bihārī.
Karandhara:
Hannah?
Prabhupāda:
He is not very straight, Kṛṣṇa. People are crooked, so He is the most crooked. [break]
Karandhara:
Hari-sevakā.
Prabhupāda:
Hari-sevikā. So, Hari-sevikā, Hari-sevikā, “maidservant of Kṛṣṇa.”
Devotees:
Jaya. [break]
Karandhara:
Delores? [break]
Prabhupāda:
Greedy for Kṛṣṇa. Tatra laulyam eka laulyam. To get Kṛṣṇa, you have only one price: to become greedy for Kṛṣṇa.
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. Kṛṣṇa 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]. That is the yajña, saṅkīrtana.
Devotee:
Hare Kṛṣṇa [end]