# Initiations

*Type: Initiation Dated: July 21st 1971 Location: New York Audio file: 710721IN-NEW-YORK.mp3*

**Prabhupāda:** What is your name? Eh?

**Susie:** Susie.

**Aravinda:** Kaṅkā dāsī.

**Prabhupāda:** Kaṅkā. Your name is Kaṅkā dāsī, the daughter of a great king. All our, I mean, girl disciples are named great devotees' daughter or wife, like that. So you know what is the rules and regulation?

**Kaṅkā:** Yes.

**Prabhupāda:** Tell me.

**Kaṅkā:** No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication.

**Prabhupāda:** And what is your name, spiritual?

**Kaṅkā: **[prompted by Aravinda] Kaṅkā?

**Prabhupāda: **You forget immediately? [laughter] Hare Kṛṣṇa. All right. How many rounds you will chant?

**Kaṅkā:** Sixteen rounds a day.

**Prabhupāda:** Only?

**Kaṅkā:** More if I can.

**Prabhupāda:** Thank you. [Kaṅkā offers obeisances] Come on. Next. [*japa*]

**Aravinda: **Rāṣṭrapālikā.

**Prabhupāda:** Rāṣṭrapālikā: governess, governeress. Is that?

**Aravinda: **Governess.

**Prabhupāda:** Governess? Governess. You have to govern. So what are the rules and regulations?

**Rāṣṭrapālikā:** No meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex, no gambling.

**Prabhupāda:** Who is your husband? Who is your husband?

**Rāṣṭrapālikā:** Nitāi dāsa.

**Prabhupāda:** Nitāi dāsa. That's all right. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

**Aravinda: **Vidarbha-sūtā.

**Prabhupāda:** Garbha-sūtā.

**Aravinda:** Vidarbha-sūtā.

**Prabhupāda:** Eh? Vidarbha-sūtā. Vidarbha-sūtā means the wife of Lord Rāmacandra. Come on. You are married? No, not yet. All right. Come on, next.

**Aravinda:** Vilāsinī.

**Prabhupāda:** Vilāsinī. Vilāsinī means who enjoys with Kṛṣṇa. Come on. [*japa*]

**Aravinda:** Uṣika.

**Prabhupāda:** Uṣika.

**Aravinda: **Uṣika.

**Prabhupāda:** Uṣika is Brahmā's another name, Uśik-kṣayā. So you know the rules and regulations? What are they?

**Uṣika: **No illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication.

**Prabhupāda:** Thank you. [*japa*] *Ceto-darpaṇa-marjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam* [*Cc. Antya 20.12*].

**Aravinda:** Romapāda.

**Prabhupāda:** Brahmapāda?

**Aravinda:** Romapāda.

**Prabhupāda:** Roma?

**Aravinda: **R-o-m-a-p-a-d-a.

**Prabhupāda:** Rāmapāda? R-o?

**Aravinda:** R-o.

**Prabhupāda:** All right. So there was a great *ṛṣi,* Romaharṣaṇa, Romaharṣaṇa. So his disciple or servant. Yes. Hare Kṛṣṇa. No, that's all right. Come on.

**Aravinda:** Cedirāja.

**Prabhupāda:** Cedirāja. Cedirāja was Kṛṣṇa's aunt's husband. In connection with Kṛṣṇa. He was a great king. His son, Cedirāja's son, was Kṛṣṇa's cousin-brother but greatest enemy. Yes. Kṛṣṇa killed him. Yes. [laughter] Come on. [*japa*]

**Aravinda:** Kuśakratha dāsa.

**Prabhupāda:** Kuśakratha. Kuśakratha. You know the rules and regulation? Yes. What are they?

**Kuśakratha:** No meat-eating, no gambling, no illicit sex, uh, no intoxication.

**Prabhupāda:** Which you like best? [laughter] Which of them? [laughs]

**Kuśakratha:** You are reading my mind, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

**Prabhupāda:** [laughs] All right. Don't do that again. [laughter]

**Aravinda:** Kirtīrāja.

**Prabhupāda:** Kirtīrāja. "The king who is famous." Who is that king who is famous, very? Do you know? No? Kṛṣṇa. [laughter] What are the rules?

**Kirtīrāja:** No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling and no intoxication.

**Prabhupāda:** Thank you.

**Aravinda: **Kaṁsā. Kaṁsā devi.

**Prabhupāda: **Kaṁsā was the sister of King Kaṁsa. Kaṁsā was not bad, but Kaṁsa was bad. Yes. Come on.

[aside:] So is there any thread?

**Aravinda****:** Yes. There's seven *gāyatrīs,* four threads.

**Prabhupāda:** Hmm?

**Aravinda: **Four threads, seven *gāyatrīs* in all.

**Prabhupāda:** So they may come after. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

**Devotees: **All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to the pure devotee.

[devotees offer obeisances] [end]