Initiation Lecture
But another side is that he wants to live, because actually he does not die.
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But another side is that he wants to live, because actually he does not die.
So similarly, Kṛṣṇa's name, we should not try to exact some material profit by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
Real sannyāsa is when you can induce other people to become Kṛṣṇa conscious and they dance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Ten kinds of offenses, they are mentioned in the paper.
So therefore these hands and legs which we have got, this is Kṛṣṇa's hands and legs.
\" Of course, there are many other forms of God, but in order to concentrate your mind perfectly, you should only think of Kṛṣṇa.
Therefore He is singular number, He is always singular number.
So this chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is purifying your existence. Yasmād śuddhyed sattvam ]]. Sattvam means existence. You are existing, I am existing, God is existing—eternally. The temporary existenc...
The purport of this mantra, mantra means—man means mind and tra means delivering.
The whole process, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is to purify the people in general from the contaminated condition of material existence.
So when one cannot understand his sufferings of this material contamination, his life is animal life.
So keeping this point of view, if we follow the regulative principle, then...
So Brahman, Brahman, nirviśeṣa-brahman, impersonal Brahman, when one understands, jñānaṁ vijñānam...
, Bhāgavata interpretation is that he is cheating the atheist person.
Chandanācārya, a great preacher of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
And if we, suppose, construct a huge building and nobody comes, then what is the use of spending money?
I have to rectify it.\" You have to test whether you are increasing your love of God, Kṛṣṇa.
So those who are intelligent, they are not concerned with...
Therefore Bhagavad-gītā instructs that \"You surrender.
So duration of life is very uncertain in this age.
In any condition of life, happiness or distress, you shall continue as husband and wife, because our main business is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So these Gosvāmīs, they made so many books to guide us.
So many people are becoming very great in the estimation of material life.
So this firm conviction is the beginning of initiation.
Upāśraya means just like a person who is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, and if anyone takes shelter of such devotee, he can be purified.
Now you will see how much husband takes care of the wife, how much it is obliging.
So there are many things, but today we are observing this ceremony, and the other day we also observed.
So questions, jijñāsuḥ, inquisitive, of transcendental matter.
Because we are in a dangerous position of material existence.
Brāhmaṇas means those who are interested in spiritual life, they are called brāhmaṇas, intelligent class.
In the fire of Kṛṣṇa consciousness all māyā burnt to ashes.