20200308 Initiation Address

20200308 JAYAPATAKA SWAMI GURU MAHARAJ, INITIATION ADDRESS, SRI MAYAPUR DHAM, INDIA

Mukham karoti vacalam pangum langayate girim

Yat kripa tam aham vande sri gurum dina tarinam

Paramananda Madhavam Sri Caitanya Isvaram

Jai Nitai Gaur! Jai Srila Prabhupada!

I was ready to come here at 11 am, and we already had picked out all the names I had received. But at 1 o clock in the morning, a whole new set of names were forwarded! So, if I receive the names so late, naturally it takes time! And, I had a meeting from 8 to 10 this morning, 10.30. Anyway, so I am sorry for being late. I think that you took your vows? Who has taken the vow to follow the four principles? Please raise your hands. Who has not taken a vow? And you have agreed also to chant 16 rounds a day? And you also agreed to help me fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s instructions? So, these instructions you receive at the time of initiation, you should be very careful to follow these, your whole life! Lord Caitanya, our acaryas taught, grihe tako bone tako, sada Hari bole dako. You can be a grihasta or you can be a vairagi, either one, but you should follow the rules of your ashram. It is very important that you take up some service for  Kṛṣṇa. If you are a member of a namahatta, you can help to spread the namahatta preaching. If you are a member of some temple community, you can help the temple to spread  Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I will accept this as a personal service to me! So if you are in one ashram, or if you are a brahmacari, but you do not feel comfortable, it is possible to change the ashram. If you are a grihasta, you should stay faithful to your spouse, and practice your  Kṛṣṇa samsara. We want to see that people take up Lord Caitanya’s instructions, He taught we should chant Hare  Kṛṣṇa, we should worship and serve Lord  Kṛṣṇa, and we should read and hear the books, the teachings of  Kṛṣṇa. Bolo  Kṛṣṇa bhajo  Kṛṣṇa koro  Kṛṣṇa sika. Ha! Ha! So you must have heard a lot of lectures. How to avoid the ten offences to the Holy Name.  And also  the importance of taking initiation and connection to the guru parampara. So I don’t want to delay the process. There are some people from my office who have been cleared, and some people from the namahatta and the Gita Course. Some people have given personal beads, which I chanted on, and others beads we chanted are general beads. I take no responsibility, talk to them! Ha! Hare  Kṛṣṇa! I heard there is aspiring and shelter candidates. May I have those first and then we will give initiations. Hare  Kṛṣṇa!

Transcribed by Jayaraseshwari devi dasi

 09 March 2020

Proof reading Level 1 by Bhavatariniradhika devi dasi

09 March 2020

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