Subject: Remembering Srila Prabhupada - First initiation is more

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August 3 and August 10

 

 

Satsvarupa Maharaja inquired in a letter about the

difference between first and second initiation. Srila

Prabhupada explained, "First initiation is more

important. You can go without second initiation. First

initiation stands strong. If it is executed very

thoroughly, that is sufficient. The Vedic system was

to give sacred thread at the first initiation. We

follow pancaratrika. Vedic initiation was given to

persons born of a brahmana. That is not possible in

this age. Therefore he has to be prepared by harinama,

then second. He's given a chance. Therefore, others

are protesting: he is not born of a brahmana, how can

he be initiated? The spiritual master accepts the

disciples' sinful reactions at the time of first

initiation."

 

August 10

For more than a month, Prabhupada has had to ask daily

that devotees not use the microphone for performing

kirtana: "They think that their voice becomes sweet

from using it. Actually, they sound exactly like a

raksasa."

In the afternoon before taking rest, Srila Prabhupada

asked Upendra whether he had ever seen a

slaughterhouse. Upendra answered that in Australia,

they first make the cows unconscious by hitting them

with a sledgehammer. When Srila Prabhupada arose, he

said to Upendra, "What you have said to me about the

hammer has made me horrified."

 

- From the TKG's Diary by HH Tamal Krishna Goswami

maharaj

 

 

 

 

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