# Initiations

*Type: Initiation Dated: January 10th 1974 Location: Los Angeles Audio file: 740110IN.LA.mp3*

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]